{"id":2829,"date":"2013-01-02T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T01:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2013-03-03T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:42:24","slug":"torvalds-it-is-the-journey-not-the-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2013\/01\/torvalds-it-is-the-journey-not-the-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Torvalds: It is the journey, not the destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tech Crunch Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/04\/19\/an-interview-with-millenium-technology-prize-finalist-linus-torvalds\/\">http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/04\/19\/an-interview-with-millenium-technology-prize-finalist-linus-torvalds\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But to expand on that, and to perhaps give you something of an answer anyway: this is very much true for me in software development too. I like the *process*. I like writing software. I like trying to make things work better. In many ways, the end result is unimportant \u2013 it\u2019s really just the excuse for the whole experience. It\u2019s why I started Linux to begin with \u2013 sure, I kind of needed an OS, but I needed a *project* to work on more than I needed the OS.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, to get a bit \u201cmeta\u201d on this issue, what\u2019s even more interesting than improving a piece of software, is to improve the *way* we write and improve software. Changing the process of making software has sometimes been some of the most painful parts of software development (because we so easily get used to certain models), but that has also often been the most rewarding parts. It is, after all, why \u201cgit\u201d came to be, for example. And I think open source in general is obviously just another \u201cprocess model\u201d change that I think is very successful.<\/p>\n<p>So my model is kind of a reverse \u201cend result justifies the means\u201d. Hell no, that\u2019s the stupidest saying in the history of man, and I\u2019m not even saying that because it has been used to make excuses for bad behavior. No, it\u2019s the worst possible kind of saying because it totally misses the point of everything.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simply not the end that matters at all. It\u2019s the means \u2013 the journey. The end result is almost meaningless. If you do things the right way, the end result *will* be fine too, but the real enjoyment is in the doing, not in the result.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m still really happy to be \u201cdoing\u201d 20 years later, with not an end in sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/04\/19\/an-interview-with-millenium-technology-prize-finalist-linus-torvalds\/ But to expand on that, and to perhaps give you something of an answer anyway: this is very much true for me in software development too. I like the *process*. I like writing software. I like trying to make things work better. In many ways, the end result is unimportant \u2013 it\u2019s really just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}