Aah, most of us techno-geeks are decent people. Well, except for the trekkies; they're just plain weird.

As for Ayn Rand...read Atlas Shrugged a while ago. Some parts were really infuriating. But mostly it was God damn repetative. Over and over and over and over, not to mention and over, again Rand kept making the same point ("If you're stupid you deserve to starve. I pwnz you!"). Now, if she'd cut about 500 pages of the book, it might have made for a decent read.
I don't know if it's second only to the Bible in terms of influence, but I think it's second only to the Bible in terms of length!

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde