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The Beauty of Programming (2001)
Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) I don’t know how to really explain my fascination with programming, but I’ll try. To somebody who does it, it’s the most interesting thing in the world.
Mandelbrot just made up these arbitrary rules about this world that doesn’t exist, and that has no relevance to reality, but it turned out they created fascinating patterns. The story goes that the great German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was in school and his teacher was bored, so to keep the students preoccupied he instructed them to add up all the numbers between 1 and 100. Reprinted with permission from Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, by Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) and David Diamond, HarperCollins, 2001.
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