Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
Linus TorvaldsYou 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.
Linus TorvaldsWhoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
Linus TorvaldsIn my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
Linus TorvaldsI'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.
Linus Torvalds