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Eric S. Raymond, born on December 4, 1957, is a renowned programmer with a significant impact on the field of open-source software. He made important contributions to the development of the Linux kernel and is best known for his theoretical contributions to the open-source movement. Raymond's book 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' has had a profound influence on software development models.

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“Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world”

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“The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole”

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“The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management”

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“Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.”

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“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).”

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“If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.”

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Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

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“To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.”

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Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

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“Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.”

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Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

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Born: December 4, 1957
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