There's something about that tinkering, playing, hacking ethos that is core to what makes Silicon Valley, and entrepreneurship in general, exist.
Now Verdae is becoming a city within a city, designed with a walkable "live, work, play" ethos.
But the pay-to-play ethos, because it is increasingly tolerated among members, is most damaging to the institution.
From his days as a freeholder, when he campaigned as a reformer, Christie was intimately familiar with the patronage and pay-for-play ethos at the local level.
Although Britain and the U.S. have been the closest of allies in the so-called war on terror, the Tappin case has exposed a cultural gap between perceived American zealotry and the "fair play" ethos cultivated by the British.
This all-work-and-minimal-play ethos is the subject of "10 Bullets," a serious and seriously droll movie I had to watch before I was allowed to interview the artist, and which Armory-goers are asked to watch, and answer questions about, before gaining admittance to the LEM.
The Micro's consumer-friendly credentials include having a plug and play ethos, with the device shipped ready assembled, and with auto-leveling and auto-calibration built in to the printer head so it can keep on printing without requiring user intervention.
Rogge acknowledged the important role that the UK had played as "the birthplace of modern sport", codifying the "fair play" ethos of sport, and in building sport into the school curriculum.
Although female models and male sports stars may epitomise a work hard, play hard ethos, they need a certain amount of rest and recuperation in order to perform at their best.
Yet for many students, the pressures of being in a highly competitive environment where the "work hard, play hard" ethos is a defining characteristic and achieving effortless perfection is seen as the ultimate ideal can be a crushing burden.
