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Bruce Schneier

"People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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

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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."

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"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."

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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 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."

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"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."

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

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