Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.
Linus TorvaldsI have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.
Linus TorvaldsI often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
Linus TorvaldsBackups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.
Linus Torvalds