> And what about the free-wheeling, non-traditional culture (embodied in the Homebrew Computing Club)? Not much mention of government funding, but there is thi

> And what about the free-wheeling, non-traditional culture (embodied in the Homebrew Computing Club)? Not much mention of government funding, but there is this: "A city has to tolerate strangeness to be a home for startups, because startups are so strange. And you can't choose to allow just the forms of strangeness that will turn into big startups, because they're all intermingled. You have to tolerate all strangeness."