"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."

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“I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?”

“From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”

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