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Re:Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore by SQLite on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:29PM (#15714576)
> I don't remember the original quote, but is alike: "Novices worry for code, Experts focus on data structures".

The origin is Linus Torvalds on the Git mailing list. Here is a copy from LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/193245/

The quote is ironic considering that Git uses a bespoke and not particularly well-designed key/value database, which has resulted in notorious usability problems in Git.

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