“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. Everything in life progresses in that order. Everything is moving in the same direction, but not at the same time. So basically sex has reached entertainment, war is close to it, technology is pretty much there. The new things are things that are just survival. Like, hopefully, space travel will at some point be an issue of survival, then it will be social, then entertainment. Look at civilization as a cult. I mean, that also follows the same pattern. Civilization starts as survival. You get together to survive better and you build up your social structure. Then eventually civilization exists purely for entertainment. Okay, well, not purely. And it doesn't have to be bad entertainment. The ancient Greeks are known for having had a very strong social order, and they also had a lot of entertainment. They're known for having had the best philosophers of their time.
So what this builds up to is that in the end we're all here to have fun. We might as well sit down and relax, and enjoy the ride.”
― Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
