ZDNet: Job Satisfaction and Open Source

"Do you know what makes an engineer happiest? An efficient, elegant, solution to an engineering problem. And the most elegant solutions of all, of course, are the ones that reduce complexity while solving multiple problems at once.

"This seems to be a basic human thing: watch babies for a while and you'll notice that they smile when solving what must be, for them, very difficult problems--like how to roll over or get mommy's attention..."

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