[ Thanks to Ned
Ulbricht for this link. ]
“Linus Torvalds wants me to believe he’s too boring for this
story. The creator of the Linux operating system portrays himself
as a mild-mannered soul leading a humdrum life, just another guy
lucky enough to own a McMansion in the hills above San Jose
courtesy of the money-mad late ’90s. Before agreeing to meet me,
Torvalds sent an email imagining that I’d be overwhelmed by the
tedium of hanging around with the likes of him.“‘Six shots of coffee and I was expecting Linus to really spring
into action,’ he wrote, pretending to be me. ‘Where would he go
next? Fighting evil software hoarders? But no. He got into his car
(dammit, if I had a car like that I wouldn’t act so sluglike) and
drove sedately back home I closed my eyes and dreamt of more
exciting assignments…'”