“I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.”

Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2006-09-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-06-07 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/22/319,
2000s, 2006

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