"ICHR was a semi-private meeting of like minded Ruby Hackers that generally and willingly devolved into late night drinking sessions. Normally these nights would fade away like my hangover the next morning, but this night was different. This was the night that GitHub was born."
"Like Perl, Git has lots of flexbility, timtowtdi, and extensibility. As a result, learning git is a pretty open-ended task - not really because git is hard or confusing, but because it is simple - less confusing"