Things I like

A list of People & Organizations who inspire me, corporations I would like to work for, programs I love, or simply the list of things I like. 

Mostly, heroes, sweethearts and missions.

Its an assorted one, arranged in no particular order & will be updated randomly whenever I get time.

My Dad

1. Cory Doctorow
2. Aaron Swartz
3. Thomas Dullien / halvar flake
4. Kyle Cooper / Imaginary Forces
5. The Indian Army 
6. Phrack
7. Pugachev's Cobra
8. Linus Torvalds
9. Richard Stallman
10. Richard Feynmann
11. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel & 
12. V.P. Menon : Unsung hero of India
13. Don Knuth
14. Satoru Iwata
15. Alan Cox
16. Snow Crash / Neal Stephenson - The Single most important book which should have been made a part of curricula of engineering students long time ago..
17. AT&T - Despite all the hate it gets, I am really inspired by how it has been the home for one of the most talented people who changed the world forever. Plus I really liked how it  embraced Juniper in its backbone plus all the innovations, cutting edge technology it has.
18. Jim Morrison / The Doors
19. KPMG - Finally made it here : ]   Ketan,Param, Seemant, Namrata, Kanishk, Kedar, Sony Anthony, and Urmi.
20. The Odessa File / Frederick Forsyth - I read this book from my cousin's collection, and I was instantly hooked. Highly detailed factual military data coupled with neat fiction, It was a classic that still holds dear to me.
21. Fyodor
22. Enrico Perla - B.Sc. Computer Science University of Torino, M.Sc. Computer Science Trinity College Dublin
23. Creedance Clear Water Revival
24. France Telecom / Orange - Having one of the oldest networks in the world, still going strong.
25. El Semi - One word - Nebula & CPS3emu. Okay thats 2 but they are worth it.
26. Harry Markopolos
27. Waterparks with low chlorine
28. Hideo Kojima / Metal Gear Solid - The game that changed it all
29. fx / Phenoelit / Recurity Labs
30. Bruce Schneier
31. djb
32. APJ Abdul Kalaam
33. Akira Toriyama
34. LKML - Believe me guys,this is the new usenet for the technically inclined.
35. Steve Yegge
36. ROP
37. sgrakkyu
38. Ghost in the shell
39. Cowboy Bebop
40. 4chan
41. Dragon Ball Z
42. Che
43. Zed Shaw - Famous dev & artist became immortal in Rails is a Ghetto, his learn X the hard way series is awesome. The Industry needs more catalysts like Yegge & Shaw.
44. conemu maximus
45. Rurouni Kenshin
46. Offensive Security - Might be an OSCP some day.. (fingers crossed) Cleared OSCP : ]
47. The Sage of Omaha
48. Michael Abrash
49. John Yudkin
50. Resident Evil 4 - Gamecube edition - The true classic
51. Jerry Harvey / JhAudio
52. Hacker News
53. Anna Hazare
54. Nir Zuk
55. Naruto
56. Moxie Marlinspike
57. Satoshi Nakamoto
58. Lee Holloway, Cloudflare
59. Pieter Hintjens - Hero
60. Peter Norman - Personal Hero, Black Power Salute
61. Debian
62. Antifork
63. CTFs
64. Chrono Trigger - The greatest RPG ever made
65. God of War Series (Except Ascension, it sucked) - Hack n Slash redefined in this re-imagining of violent greek panorama
66. JPAX - my freelance security venture with a lot of potential Not anymore, I learnt a lot till it lasted. 
67. John Williams
68. Dan Luu - Personal Hero, hacker and hardware engineer extraordinaire
69. Yuri Gagarin - First human to fly into space, with an infectious smile
70. Ken Kutaragi - Passionate engineer, creator of Playstation & "Gutenberg of Video Games" and the former group CEO of SCE.