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One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat - and there are a number of other Linux companies going public - basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area.

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My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

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The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

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The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [. . . ] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

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Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

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The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

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Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

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