Perhaps you are remembering the famous quote from Jeffrey Hammerbacher[1] who left Facebook to found Cloudera[2]: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" (at a Business Week interview in 2011 [3]).

The quote is a parody on another famous quote from the opening lines of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl":

> I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

> dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

> Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hammerbacher

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudera

[3] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:26KzMa...