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You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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