“I may be a huge computer nerd, but even so I don't think education should be about computers. Not as a subject, and not as a classroom resource either.”

— Linus Torvalds

Sam Varghese, iTWire interview, 2014-09-15, 2018-07-20 https://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/65402-torvalds-says-he-has-no-strong-opinions-on-systemd,
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