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Quotes - Linus Torvalds

posted Jan 10, 2010, 8:22 PM by Matt Lankford [ updated Mar 23, 2010, 10:23 AM ]

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

Torvalds, Linus (2003-09-23). Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
Note: Torvalds did not originate this quote, and there are earlier records for it. This is a variation on "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches," which is by George Bernard Shaw.

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.

Torvalds, Linus (2003-09-23). Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
Note: Torvalds did not originate this quote, and there are earlier records for it. This is a variation on "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches," which is by George Bernard Shaw.

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