Bruce Perens

1950– · American computer scientist

Topics: software engineering, open source, life

• It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.

  — Bruce Perens

• It [Open Source] is a massively parallel drunkards' walk filtered by a Darwinian process.

  — Bruce Perens

• No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.

  — Bruce Perens