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"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
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"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."
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"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."
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"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."
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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
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"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."
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"I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit."
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"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."
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"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."
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"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."
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"Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!"
Beauty
"Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?"
Old
"I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more."
Linux
"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
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"And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux."
Time
"Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless."
Want
"See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy."
Joy
"I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card."
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"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."
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