“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." by Eric S. Raymond?
Eric S. Raymond photo
Eric S. Raymond 22
American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the … 1957

Related quotes

Linus Torvalds photo

“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Ralph Venning photo

“Courteous reader, 'tis said of scripture that it is deep enough for an elephant to swim in, and yet shallow enough for a lamb to wade through.”

Ralph Venning (1621–1673) English minister

From the late 1640s, in Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (2002), p. 101.

Deb Caletti photo
Jonathan Edwards photo

“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Eoin Colfer photo

“My bugs don't have bugs.”

Source: Artemis Fowl

Terry Pratchett photo

“The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

No to Age banding Campaign http://www.notoagebanding.org/index.php?comments/authors
General sources

Bill Gates photo
Paul R. Halmos photo

“I was too near it then to see how shallow it all was...”

Paul R. Halmos (1916–2006) American mathematician

Source: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)

Jim Morrison photo
Scott Lynch photo

“For Calo, Galdo, and Bug”

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Related topics