We might as well sit down and relax, and enjoy the ride.

So what this builds up to is that in the end we're all here to have fun. They're known for having had the best philosophers of their time. The ancient Greeks are known for having had a very strong social order, and they also had a lot of entertainment.

And it doesn't have to be bad entertainment. Then eventually civilization exists purely for entertainment. You get together to survive better and you build up your social structure. I mean, that also follows the same pattern. Like, hopefully, space travel will at some point be an issue of survival, then it will be social, then entertainment. The new things are things that are just survival. So basically sex has reached entertainment, war is close to it, technology is pretty much there. Everything is moving in the same direction, but not at the same time. Everything in life progresses in that order. Leavened with an appealing, self-deprecating sense of humor and a generous perspective that few hardcore coders have, this is a refreshing read for geeks and the techno-obsessed.“They are the motivational factors for everything in your life-for any thing that you do or any living thing does: The first is survival, the second is social order, and the third is entertainment. Even though Torvalds is now a bigger star in the computer world than Bill Gates, and companies like IBM are running Linux on their servers, he has retained his innocence: the book is full of statements like 'Open source makes sense' and 'Greed is never good' that seem sincere. In a radical move, he began sharing the code with fellow OS enthusiasts over the burgeoning Internet in the early 1990s, allowing others to contribute to and improve it, while he oversaw the process. For years, Torvalds did little but program, upgrading his hardware every couple of years, attending school in a desultory fashion and generally letting the outside world float by unnoticed, until he eventually wrote his own operating system, Linux. At 11 years old, Torvalds was hooked on computers-especially on figuring out how they ran and on improving their operating systems. He graduated from the University of Helsinki and lives with his wife, the six-time karate champion of Finland, and his children. In his own words (interspersed with co-writer Diamond's tongue-in-cheek accounts of his interviews with the absentminded Torvalds), the programmer relates how it all started in 1981 with his grandfather back in Finland, who let him play around on a Vic 20 computer. The autobiography of a career computer programmer, even an unorthodox one, may sound less than enthralling, but this breezy account of the life of Linux inventor Torvalds not only lives up to its insouciant title, it provides an incisive look into the still-raging debate over open source code.

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