[bironran]

Like a lot of things Linus, it's very pretentious and aloof but right at the core of it. Code matters a lot and bad code can tank performance, stop evolution and introduce security issues. But with Git, this is a mostly truthful statement.

[megous]

I remember reading a quote where he states, that when looking at new code he starts with data structures, to get an understanding of what's going on. Or something to that effect.

That would be more applicable here. But I couldn't immediately find it, so I pasted this one instead, which is somewhat close but not perfectly related to the OP.