I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer an…

Linus Torvalds
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I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. ✨ Message to Git mailing list, lwn.net. June 27, 2006.
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