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"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."
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"I have a really powerful urge to see things work."
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"On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in."
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"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."
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"The power of the computer is starting to spread."
Power
"All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature."
Future
"I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through."
Art
"I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement."
Time
"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."
Computer
"To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better."
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"When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets."
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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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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."
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"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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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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"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
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"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."
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