Eric S. Raymond (1957) American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement
How to Become a Hacker
“I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!””
— Alan Kay
ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005 http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273&page=4 <br class="br">2000s
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Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
How I do my computing (2006) http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html <br class="br">2000s
“We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.”
Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet
Si nasce come una pagina bianca e si muore come una pagina nera.
“A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.”
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Sabriel (1995), p. 46.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
The Odyssey File (1984), also quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 128
1980s
“Beppu (n.)
The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.”
Douglas Adams book The Meaning of Liff
Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
