Torvalds, Linus (2023-03-16), social.kernel.org, retrieved: 2023-04-12

I’m actually a horrible MIS person, and I would never want to maintain my own server. I’m a programmer for chrissake! The same way you should fear me if I hold a soldering iron, you should be very very nervous if I were to do any server management... and on a similar note: not only am I not much of a MIS person, I’m also not much of a social networking person. I foresee a lot of disappointment in the future of any followers of this account.

— Linus Torvalds

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I’m actually a horrible MIS person, and I would never want to maintain my own server. I’m a programmer for chrissake! The same way you should fear me if I hold a soldering iron, you should be very very nervous if I were to do any server management... and on a similar note: not only am I not much of a MIS person, I’m also not much of a social networking person. I foresee a lot of disappointment in the future of any followers of this account." in the context of "Torvalds, Linus (2023-03-16), social.kernel.org, retrieved: 2023-04-12" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Linus Torvalds" (Quotes, 2010s, 2023) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Linus Torvalds

About Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.