“Not being able to program is going to be like not being able to drive — lacking a fundamental skill in our society.”
Brian Behlendorf, inventor of an open-source Web server, on readin’, writin’ and algorithms, The New York Times, 12 December 2001
“Not being able to program is going to be like not being able to drive — lacking a fundamental skill in our society.”
Brian Behlendorf, inventor of an open-source Web server, on readin’, writin’ and algorithms, The New York Times, 12 December 2001
“There was an emperor’s new clothes thing going on. No one wanted to believe the whole thing could crash. But it surely did. When I went back in April earlier this year, I wanted to hug everyone.”
Archaeologist Christine Finn, on how Silicon Valley’s boom-and-bust cycle left techies feeling naked and vulnerable, BBC News, 11 December 2001
“There was an internal zealot-like attitude where everything was consumer-driven, but the fact of the matter is, it’s a business.”
Yahoo sales executive Gregory Coleman, on defending the online network’s capitalist way of life against homegrown, ideologically motivated threats, News.com, 5 December 2001
“At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top — I’m afraid that’s not quite right.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, explaining to a 15-year-old news correspondent where software comes from, BBC, 7 December 2001
“Software evolves. It isn’t designed. The only question is how strictly you control the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of mutations.”
Linus Torvalds, expounding on Linux’s just slightly unnatural selection, Kerneltrap.com, 30 November 2001
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