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I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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