Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen are who I take a lot of similar (but not the same) inspiration from these days. He's dead now too, and not a technologist, but

Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen are who I take a lot of similar (but not the same) inspiration from these days. He's dead now too, and not a technologist, but I also took a lot of inspiration from the admonitions of freedom to read and freedom of speech from Christopher Hitchens.