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| Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
-- Linus Torvalds
In my experience, most people who say something like this mean "To hell with your longer-term thinking, look at the short-term success my short-term thinking has got me!"
That's a good point. However, Torvalds specifically has got some solid long-term success as well to his credit.
And in programming in particular, I think there's a lot to be said for avoiding elegance creep.
Sure, but I think the same category contains his disdain for the "license purists" who criticized his choice of BitKeeper.
Thanks for the reference, I hadn't heard about that controversy before. Reading this article linked from that WP page reduces my respect for Torvalds a fair bit.
Luckily for everybody, though, the end result of the kerfluffle was the excellent git software.