Dries turns 30 today!

Matt Asay says it well at The Open Road:

Dries is a very unassuming, interesting, and likable person.

It's even more impressive to me that Dries wrote Drupal in his spare time as a PhD student in Belgium. Bonus points for doing it in PHP, despite the fact that most of his academic work has related to Java.

Actually, the real measure of Dries' success is that he remains a good person despite the success.

Well, add to that that Dries nurtured a community around Drupal, that in turn added to Drupal what he or a small team could never have done alone.