In fact, McCarthy and the other early hackers were critical of those who saw the computer revolution as a path to personal wealth or its close cousin, personal power. Even Lou Montulli recalls being taken aback by the promise of a quick fortune from Jim Clark. “He filled our heads with giant numbers of how we were going to make riches and be the most important people on the planet,” Montulli recalled, which conflicted with his own “sort of Marxist” belief that “you couldn’t make more than a million dollars honestly.”