Ruthless Massively Parallel Trial-and-Error with a Feedback Cycle

Glyn Moody points to Simon Willison pointing to an old 2001 post by Linus Torvalds. An oldie but a goodie, I'm including it here for greater memory permanence.
In response to a comment that "Linux really isn't going anywhere in particular and seems to be making progress through sheer luck," Linus writes:

Hey, that's not a [...]

Review: Linus Torvalds, 'Just for Fun'

Just for FunLinus Torvalds
Welcome to my inaugural minimalist review. I recently finished reading Just for Fun, by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. "The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary." Now it's time to blurt out a few comments.
(Remember: minimalist may refer to the small amount of substantive content rather than the word count. [...]