[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.
Only failure makes us experts.
C++ is a pile of crap.
Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.
What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.