Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.