This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.