Linus Torvalds

I'm not a fan of 'magic'. I like things to be explicit.

I'm not a fan of 'hidden complexity'.

I'm not a fan of 'abstraction for abstraction's sake'.

I'm not a fan of 'frameworks'. I prefer libraries.

I'm not a fan of 'object-oriented programming' for everything.

I'm not a fan of 'design patterns' as a dogma.

I'm not a fan of 'agile' as a religion.

I'm not a fan of 'waterfall' either.

I'm not a fan of 'big up-front design'.

I'm not a fan of 'perfect is the enemy of good'.

I'm not a fan of 'release early, release often' if it means releasing broken code.

I'm not a fan of 'testing in production'.

I'm not a fan of 'move fast and break things'.

I'm not a fan of 'technical debt' as an excuse.

I'm not a fan of 'legacy code' as a pejorative.

I'm not a fan of 'rewriting everything from scratch'.

I'm not a fan of 'not invented here' syndrome.

I'm not a fan of 'NIH' syndrome either.

I'm not a fan of 'vendor lock-in'.

I'm not a fan of 'proprietary software'.