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Paul saw the magazine at Out of Town News, a news kiosk on Harvard's campus.
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The origin story of Microsoft
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I learned a lot by experimenting with the PDP-10 in Harvard's computer lab. I even used it to make an interactive baseball game.
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I loved listening to the album Donovan's Greatest Hits with my friends.
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After my freshman year at Harvard, I moved into Currier House. It was a blast to go back and visit.
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I ate a lot of pizza from Pinocchio's in Cambridge when I was a student at Harvard.
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I always love going back to Harvard and thinking about my time there.
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My goal in school was to get the best grades with the least effort.
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My fourth grade teacher asked us to bring in "something unusual" for show and tell. My pick was maybe a bit extreme.
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When I was in the 5th grade, we had to write a report about a U.S. state. I might have gone overboard with mine.
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Dr. Morris, my chemistry teacher, used everyday objects to teach us about scientific phenomena.
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I was just a teenager when I got my first jobs working on software. I learned a ton from my experiences at C-Cubed and TRW.
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I wrote my first video game in high school: my own text-based version of Lunar Lander.
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I have many fond memories of messing around on the teletype at Lakeside with Paul, Ric, and our friend Kent Evans.
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When I was in high school, I used to sneak out of my house at night to debug software for a computer company.
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It's hard to overstate my mom's influence on me.
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My dad will always be "the real Bill Gates" to me.
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I thought being a Cub Scout was a fun challenge—but becoming a Boy Scout took it to the next level.
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Tornadoes are rare in Washington state, and I will never forget the time my house got hit by one.
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When I was 6 years old, Seattle hosted the World's Fair. Visiting it felt like getting a glimpse of the future.
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My family had a lot of Christmas traditions—and especially around our annual Christmas cards.
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I loved the summers my family spent at a group of cottages in Hood Canal called Cheerio.
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Retrieving data. Wait a few seconds and try to cut or copy again.
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I learned a lot from my sisters Libby and Kristi.
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When I was in elementary school, my family got an Old English Sheepdog named Crumpet.
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I always loved taking the ferry over to Bremerton to visit my grandparents.
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