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More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Any Computers Fix How Modern More Most Mystery Never Open Other People See Than Them Tool Total Up Users Work

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The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

~Clive Thompson

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Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Bother Complex Computer Consumers Files Going Know Many Most Now Over Really Requiring Software Tiny Want Your

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If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

~Clive Thompson

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No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: After Computer Consumer Drastically Improves More Product Than Year

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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