[Still Thinking]

I love Neal Stephenson! Cryptonomicon, Anthem, and Reamde are three of my favorite books. Snow Crash, Diamond Age and others are good too, although I couldn’t slog through that trilogy that’s back story for Cryptonomicon.

[Still Thinking]

Anathem. Cursed Android auto-corrupt! I made sure to spell it correctly, then my phone changed it as soon as I wasn’t looking.

[Billthedrill]

I found it - it's in his book In The Beginning Was The Command Line. That's a delightfully dated volume now (originally published in 1999) but there's still some fun stuff inside. One observation in particular I recall vividly: "Linux is free only if your time has no value." That's less so these days but always worth starting an argument over.