Linus Torvalds Quotes
If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
Torvalds, Linus. "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on Git." Google Tech Talks, 3 May 2007.
Lord Action had a famous version of this sentiment—{625555}.
Commenting on jail guards who were engaged in drug smuggling:
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the main developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS. He also created the distributed revision control system Git and the scuba dive logging and planning software Subsurface.