“I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.”

— Linus Torvalds

Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2005-07-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg83284.html,
2000s, 2005

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