There are two versions of this, both referring to Linus Torvalds:The first was written by hacker and open source leader Eric S. Raymond in his essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”. It states that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. More formally: “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone.”The second was written by Linus Torvalds himself in the prologue to the book “The Hacker Ethic” and states that “… all of our motivations fall into three basic categories. More important, progress is about going through those very same things as ‘phases’ in a process of evolution, a matter of passing from one category to the next. The categories, in order, are ‘survival’, ‘social life’, and ‘entertainment’.”