See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)