Thanks to Kevin Collins
for this link.
“Flyers, ads, and other colorful scraps of paper festoon every
available space on the UC Berkeley campus, but on April 30 a
majority of them bore a single name: Linus Torvalds, creator of the
LINUX operating system and folk hero to Netniks across the
globe.
“Torvalds was the much-hyped keynote speaker at Web Rush, an
afternoon conference on human ethics in a computer networked
society.”
“Although Torvalds’ work was praised by panelists as a shining
example of optimism and progressive ethics, Torvalds himself gave a
cheerfully fatalistic speech about human misery and humorously
predicted that we’re about to witness a decline in our civilization
comparable to that of the Roman Empire.”
“Torvalds… shocked everyone by asserting that ethics are
irrelevant because no matter what we do, society is destined to
repeat an endless cycle of self-destruction.”