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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
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Eric S. Raymond
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 4
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Eric Steven Raymond
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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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And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
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Programmer time is expensive conserve it in preference to machine time
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
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Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.
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