We might as well sit down and relax, and enjoy the ride. So what this builds up to is that in the end we're all here to have fun. They're known for having had the best philosophers of their time. The ancient Greeks are known for having had a very strong social order, and they also had a lot of entertainment. And it doesn't have to be bad entertainment. Then eventually civilization exists purely for entertainment. You get together to survive better and you build up your social structure. The first, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (HarperBusiness), is a lighthearted memoir that Torvalds penned with journalist David Diamond. I mean, that also follows the same pattern. Like, hopefully, space travel will at some point be an issue of survival, then it will be social, then entertainment. The new things are things that are just survival. So basically sex has reached entertainment, war is close to it, technology is pretty much there. Everything is moving in the same direction, but not at the same time. Everything in life progresses in that order. We might as well sit down and relax, and enjoy the ride.“They are the motivational factors for everything in your life-for any thing that you do or any living thing does: The first is survival, the second is social order, and the third is entertainment.

You get together to survive better and you build up your social structure.

“They are the motivational factors for everything in your life-for any thing that you do or any living thing does: The first is survival, the second is social order, and the third is entertainment.

Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds