tl;dr:"Writing comments is of paramount importance in order to produce good code" for two reasons. (1) Comments explain why the code exists and is performing a specific action. (2) It's a tool for lowering the cognitive load of the reader.
tl;dr:"In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer." Salvatore, who found Redis, is stepping down as a maintainer, but remaining on the advisory board.