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6 Linus Torvalds Quotes on Programming

Linus Torvalds quotes on programming

  1. Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

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  2. Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

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  3. Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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  4. It was _such_ a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

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  5. I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

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  6. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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