“Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.”

— Linus Torvalds

Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation, 2008-09-15, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-31 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/events/node/154,
2000s, 2008

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