Brian Behlendorf Quotes & Sayings

“Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.”

“And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.”

“No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.”

“Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.”

“I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.”

“There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.”

“What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.”

“Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.”

“In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.”

“Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.”