I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

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Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

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In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

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I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

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I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

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Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

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Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

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At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

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I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

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