Obsessing about things is important, and things really do matter, but if you can't let go of them, you'll end up crazy. - Linus Torvalds

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU Emacs would never make a good program.

We're not masturbating around with some research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a *usable* system. It's why it's not some crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.