Comment by ackfoobar
10 hours ago
> Hohndel clarified that by "clueless", Torvalds was referring to his younger self
As the saying goes "We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy."
Occasionally these are starts of great things.
Sometimes, we do such things because it’s hard. We enjoy the challenge. Those that succeed are glad to make it, too.
but most times, even in such cases, people underestimate or not estimate at all the "hard task they do as a challenge" it's kinda part of the whole thing
Sometimes we just don’t know if a person that started something did know how hard it would be or not. Sometimes it is not possible to know how hard things can be or not.
Generally this is a very interesting question hat could be discussed in a very long thread, but still the reader will not get any value from it.