I've looked at the [source code for Linux] occasionally. I don't look at it as much as I used to. I used to, for Plan 9. They were always ahead of us—they just had massively more resources to deal with hardware. So when we'd run across a piece of hardware, I’d look at the Linux drivers for it and write Plan 9 drivers for it. Now I have no reason to look at it. I run Linux.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I've looked at the [source code for Linux] occasionally. I don't look at it as much as I used to. I used to, for Plan 9. They were always ahead of us—they just had massively more resources to deal with hardware. So when we'd run across a piece of hardware, I’d look at the Linux drivers for it and write Plan 9 drivers for it. Now I have no reason to look at it. I run Linux." in the context of "Ken Thompson, in an interview with Peter Seibel for Seibel's book Coders at Work (2009)Seibel, Peter, ed. (2009), Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming chapter: Ken Thompson, page: 479, publisher: Apress, ISBN: 978-1-4302-1948-4" to mean that wisdom is timeless.