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There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
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