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"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."
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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."

"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."

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."

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

"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."

"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."

"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling."
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"But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me."


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"Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward."


"It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me."


"Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface."


"I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower."
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