Torvalds' quote about good programmer

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Accidentally I've stumbled upon the following quote by Linus Torvalds:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

I've thought about it for the last few days and I'm still confused (which is probably not a good sign), hence I wanted to discuss the following:

What interpretation of this possible/makes sense?
What can be applied/learned from it?

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