Papers

Worse Is Better - Richard P. Gabriel

 * https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

To the members of the Budget Council - Dijkstra

 * http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/OtherDocs/Haskell.html

The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric S Raymond

 * http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

The UNIX-HATERS Handbook - Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann

 * http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~weise/unix-haters.html
 * http://www.vbcf.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/BioComp/training/unix_haters_handbook.pdf

Chuck Moore on the Lost Art of Keeping It Simple

 * https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/chuck-moore-on-the-lost-art-of-keeping-it-simple/

Ben Moseley, Peter Marks - Out of the Tar Pit

 * http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf

Ted Unangst - out with the old, in with the less

 * http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-less

Ryan Dahl - I hate almost all software.
There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one. When that happens all of this shit will be trashed. We can flush boost and glib and autoconf down the toilet and never think of them again.


 * http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html