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I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

— Whitfield Diffie

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

— Tony Hawk

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

— Bram Cohen

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

— Irwin Winkler

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

— Jan Koum

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

— Steve Coogan

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

— Matt Frewer

Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

— Marc Benioff

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

— Masi Oka

I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

— Jack Dangermond

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

— Brian Acton