“What job is this? Um…that would be public advocate for the
hacker tribe, speaker-to-journalists, evangelist/interface to the
corporate world.”
“What will hurt you the most is the people you love, the tribe
you’ve sweated blood to serve. Because they’ll turn on you. They
will. Not all of them, not even most of them, but enough of them to
be wounding.”
“I want you to have it. I need someone else to take it before I
burn out. Show me competence and I’ll back you to the hilt. I’ll
hand you all my press contacts, make whatever introductions are
needed, and disappear offstage so fast your head will spin. I’d
love nothing better than to be able to retire and go back to
coding.”