25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
&gt;Bob: Is there any advice you&#x27;d like to give to young programmers&#x2F;computer science students?<p>&gt;Linus: I&#x27;m actually the worst person to ask. I knew I was interested in math and computers since an early age, and I was largely self-taught until university. And everything I did was fairly self-driven. So I don&#x27;t understand the problems people face when they say &quot;what should I do?&quot; It&#x27;s not where I came from at all.<p>This is a problem I don&#x27;t understand too. If you are really into something you motivating yourself in doing things. You can see how stupid people are when you just read the questions on Stackoverflow today. Nobody seems to figure things out by themselves anymore.<p>Same with YouTube, when people explaining simple math things with extremely effort people complaining then that today&#x27;s teachers are shit. But it&#x27;s more your own lack if you&#x27;re not able to imagine these thing inside your mind by yourself.