Think of every crucial system running Linux... It seems that this story is backwards. He should be the celebrity, all these idiots were just in front of a camera at some point.
Sir, this is the Oscar. The Nobel Prize is in room 6F.
Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine
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#42I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models. The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to ge…
I've read Slash's autobiography. It describes his life exactly as one, that is not in the know, would imagine it. That was in the eighties & nineties. Maybe times are different now.
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#43I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models. The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to ge…
I've read Slash's autobiography. It describes his life exactly as one, that is not in the know, would imagine it. That was in the eighties & nineties. Maybe times are different now.
I can only comment based on my own observations, but I see two explanations:
1) Slash is an outlier. I'm sure there are rockstars and actors that spend most of their time doing drugs and chatting up models. There are probably people like this in all fields of life.
2) His public persona is greatly enhanced by writing an autobiography that portrays him as true rock'n roll. It's great marketing.
The truth is probaly somewhere in between.
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#44"Tove pissed off Warren Beatty by asking his name not just once, but twice" is the funniest thing I've read in quite a while.
I think I've fallen into an alternate universe. I could swear Warren Beatty died just after 'Dick Tracy' came out. Who did die at about that time?
Pavel Cherenkov, Lewis Mumford, Aaron Copeland, Sammy Davis Jr, Jim Henson, Leonard Bernstein, BF Skinner, Greta Garbo, Roald Dahl ...
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#45I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models. The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to ge…
On the other hand, there is Charlie Sheen
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#46I live next door to a celebrity chef. When I met him, he comes up to me, introduces himself like he's running for office, then there's this pause because he's waiting for the typical "regular guy meets celebrity" reaction. "Haven't you heard of me?"
Nope sorry. As far as I'm concerned you're just my neighbor who doesn't walk his dog and lets the yard fill up with dog poop.
I much prefer attitudes like Annie Lennox, who once said something about how it's nice to do your own laundry for a change.
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#47"Hi, I'm Linus" "Nice to meet you Linus. What do you do?" "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal" "Really?" "People know me." "Well I'm very happy for you." "I'm very important. The internet runs off my software and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."
Sounds like he doesn't know how to present himself. "So what do you do?" "Have you heard of linux?" I'm SURE they'd say yes, it's in wallmart, even. so, "yeah, that's for computers!" "yeah. i made that. most of the web runs on it too."
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#48It just occurred to me that if I'd gone to the "Night before the Oscars" party, Linus would have been the only one I'm 100% certain I would have recognized and been certain about his name.
Hello, my name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Leenucks.
Oh, no wonder no one has heard of it. Oh well, RMS has it harder "I made Ga neeew plus lin ex?"
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#49I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models. The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to ge…
I remember some article about the band Elastica. They were on top of the charts, on the covers of magazines, they were "it." In contrast to the popstar image, they stayed in the hotel room, played Scrabble, went to bed early.
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#50I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models. The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to ge…
... Keith Richard is another outlier, based on his book. Though he does mention the hard work, he also describes lots of debauchery.