Alastair Cockburn
This principle puts it firmly: Rely on the honesty that comes with running code rather than on promissory notes in the form of plans and documents. (Agile Software Development, p.220, Cockburn, A.)
Eric Raymond
“When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.” (Raymond, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” 2000)
“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.” (Raymond, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” 2000)
“The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.” (Raymond, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” 2000)
James Surowieki
“The more influence we exert on each other, the more likely it is that we will believe the same things and make the same mistakes.” (Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” 2005)
“Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.” (Raymond, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” 2000)
Opening My Masters 