http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/04/26/quote-of-the-day en-us 40 do what you love <p>Just stumbled upon <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/billjoy.html">this interview with Bill Joy</a> from a couple years ago and it&#8217;s full of quotables. This one caught my eye:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>What about the open source idea in general?</em></p> <p>Open source is fine, but it doesn&#8217;t take a worldwide community to create a great operating system. Look at Ken Thompson creating Unix, Stephen Wolfram writing Mathematica in a summer, James Gosling in his office making Java. Now, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with letting other people help, but open source doesn&#8217;t assist the initial creative act. What we need now are great things. I don&#8217;t need to see the source code. I just want a system that works.</p> </blockquote> <p>It&#8217;s a good reminder that just because something is &#8220;open source&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t make it a great idea. Brilliant ideas are created in the minds of a few &#8211; the wisdom of the crowds usually just ends up diluting a good idea.</p> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:39:00 +0000 urn:uuid:19fa3ca8-1df8-4eb1-8cc8-a62ec5d40428 Nick Sieger http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/04/26/quote-of-the-day random http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/trackback/3