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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford."

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."

"The future belongs to those who innovate."

"An idea is like a spark in the dark " it makes everything brighter."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."

"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."

"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"
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"In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe."

"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."

"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."

"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."

"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them."

"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers."

"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."

"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
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