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"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."

"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."

"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers."

"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."

"I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers."

"My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing."

"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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"You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research."

"My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them."

"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."
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