Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

— Linus Torvalds

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me." in the context of "(2007-05-03), Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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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.