[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“Everyone else has been classified. Can we please finish this
stupid list?” The voice from the end of the table has lost its
jolly. Bushy white squeeze the twinkle out of Santa’s eyes, an
expression that might explain terrified toddlers throughout the
world, “Remember: we’re only supposed to check it twice.”
“One more time. Linus Torvalds. Come on, this guy is a
definite ‘nice’. How can you elves say ‘naughty’? He wrote software
and made it a gift to the world. He kept working with it and with
others until a mini-revolution got rolling.“