TED Talk: The mind behind Linux

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Can't watch it right now but I like the quote from the teaser:

"I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," Torvalds says. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

Yeah, I also loved that part; During the talk he compares Edison to Tesla, and says: `Because if you actually compare the two, Tesla has kind of this mind grab these days, but who actually changed the world? Edison may not have been a nice person,[but] he did a lot of things`.

make sure to watch when you get the chance, he talks about his personality(both good and bad parts) and what made Linux/Git possible.

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