See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)

— Linus Torvalds, Post, comp.os.linux.development.system newsgroup (1996)

Source: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.development.system/EG3iv5IcC3Y/6d_v3HZUZLYJ

From a 1996 newsgroup post.

Topics: software engineering