Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
While he'd been working with and thinking about the problem for a long time the speed  at which Linus produced Git always amazes me: "development of Git began on 3 April 2005...On 16 June, the kernel 2.6.12 release was managed by Git...Torvalds turned over maintenance on 26 July 2005".[1] Perhaps he should have some more breaks for side projects.[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)