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Much as he was criticized, a fair bit of which was deserved, the one thing that you could say about Steve Ballmer is that he was still very, very passionate abo

Much as he was criticized, a fair bit of which was deserved, the one thing that you could say about Steve Ballmer is that he was still very, very passionate about making Microsoft succeed right up until he was ousted. Being some kind of passionless drone that can't imagine anything greater in life than some kind of decadent "access to all the finest things in the world" is really not aligned with the hacker mindset. I think I speak for many here when I say that if I were fabulously wealthy, I'd just be hacking things on a much larger scale.

Solvency 3y ago
"I speak for many here when I say that if I were fabulously wealthy, I'd just be hacking things on a much larger scale." No one can possibly say this with full absolute certainty, the same way no one truly knows how they'll act in the face of (or aftermath of) parenthood, poverty, war, death, illness, etc. One doesn't end up at Brin levels of wealth without some part of their psyche changing.