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.
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.
Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need.