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Yeah, could be. It'd fit with a nerdy guy. I knew there was at least one song version and other sources of the quote. Dr Demento just makes me think of "Fish Heads".
What stuck with me about the form, for me, was that he looked and answered just like any other college kid.
The Verge article photo art is a sort of comic exaggeration of a lobotomy, so I guess he's come full circle.
20+ years ago, when Marc was only famous for Mosaic and Netscape, not being VC, in the Materials Research Lab at UIUC, there was a form, hand-filled in by Marc, with his picture taped on, from when he started working at MRL, or maybe at NCSA as a student. It was on a bulletin board in a glass display case in the hall where department announcements would go, or recent research papers.
The form had various entries like "favorite food" that are common when you join a team.
The only answer I remember was that under "favorite saying", he answered: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy". It stuck with me.
Everytime I see or hear about him, I remember that. Doubly so when I see this article.
I've always wondered if that's still there, hanging in that display case.