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🇿🇦Elon Musk

Business

b. 1971

"People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime."

"I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'."

"An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only."

"I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string."

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

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🇺🇸Richard Stallman

Technology

free software movement

b. 1953

"GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it."

"Values that are expressed but that don't change behavior are not really values, they are lies that you tell yourself."

"Internet infrastructure should not be owned by any small group of people."

"Download: The True Story of the Internet: Part 1"

"John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

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🇺🇸Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Science

b. 1944

"The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems."

"Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don’t be afraid of innovation. Don’t be afraid of ideas that are not your own."

"Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder."

"Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples."

"John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway", by Leo Kelion, BBC News"

"A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary."

"The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people with seeds of good ideas from getting started."

"All programs in the future will be written in a way that there is no single point of failure. There's no one server that can die and take down the service."

"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible."

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

"Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods. I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals."

"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."

"Censorship represents Fear by Big Information. 'Stopping leaks' is a new form of censorship."

"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment."

"Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial."

"A game is a series of interesting choices."

"IBM wanted CP/M prompts. It made me throw up."

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🇺🇸Daniel J. Bernstein

Mathematics

b. 1971

"So it's tempting to incorporate a smaller resolver library into qmail. I'd no longer be able to blame the BIND authors and vendors for the fact that attackers can easily use DNS to steal mail."

"It's fun to sit at a terminal and let the code flow. It sounds strange, but it just comes out my brain; once I'm started, I don't have to think about it."

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