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Soillis adopted this work ethic during his childhood in Greece. After finishing grammar school, he began to learn the craft of making and repairing shoes while working in a shop in Logganiko, a small village near Sparta. After three months there—his father paid the owner of the shop in olive oil in exchange for his son’s apprenticeship—Soillis left his childhood home...
...large part of the problem is cultural. The rules that govern behavior on the Net were set by computer hackers who largely eschew formal rules. Instead, most computer wizards subscribe to a sort of anarchistic ethic, stated most succinctly in Steven Levy's Hackers. Among its tenets...
...Internet was built up by people who lived and breathed the hacker ethic -- students at Berkeley and M.I.T., researchers at AT&T Bell Laboratories, computer designers at companies such as Apple and Sun Microsystems. "If there is a soul of the Internet, it is in that community," says Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates, a research firm in New York City...
...When we first saw him, he was real raw,” Walsh said. “But we saw that arm strength, his size, and his work ethic. Man, you shake hands with that kid and it’s like shaking hands with a shovel. He’s worked real hard...
...There’s no better example [of work ethic],” Krna said. “He trains harder than anybody in the pool and watching somebody train and race the way he does is inspiration for anybody on the team...