“‘To quote you a number of years ago: ‘Linux is evolution, not
intelligent design’,’ noted Greg KH, quoting Linux creator Linus
Torvalds. Linus expanded on the statement, ‘evolution often does
odd (and ‘suboptimal’) things exactly because it does incremental
changes that DO NOT BREAK at any point.’ He continued, ‘in other
words, exactly *because* evolution requires ‘bisectability’ (any
non-viable point in between is a dead end by definition) and does
things incrementally, it doesn’t do big flips.’ When alternative
examples in evolution were pointed out, Linus suggested that the
kernel was much simpler than a mammal and more similar to
bacteria…”