I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
Linus TorvaldsShareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Linus TorvaldsPart of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
Linus TorvaldsThe fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
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