- Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
- Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
- Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
Linux was not written from scratch. Linus Torvalds took the Minix as the starting point. It is easier to start from a good partial solution. Minix provided the scaffold and eventually the Minix code was either rewritten or deleted. Read more at
Cathedral Bazaar
