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I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.