> I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most par

> I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most part it just pure hard work and true expertise of the systems programming domain. I guess the thing is evidence that true innovation often is rigorous and dry engineering. Maybe it's because my day job is web development working with overly hyped up hipster front end developers (I'm a backend dev myself) - but I found his rather plain answers with no "eureka" in it to be quit refreshing. Linus is one of my heroes specifically because the primary focus in kernel development must be intense focus on fundamentals. I got into programming because of people like Linus so it's refreshing (to me) to here that being "boring" is just fine and even if you are boring you can still be a titan of industry by just being _that damn good_.