All I Need to Know I Learned from My Computer

  • Share all your executables.
  • Pay for your shareware.
  • Don’t hit the computer.
  • Back up files after you have found them.
  • Clean up your own messy desktop.
  • Don’t copy software that is not yours.
  • Make a smiley when you send someone a nasty message.
  • Wash your hands before you type.
  • Flush your buffers.
  • M & Ms and a cold can of Coke are good for you.
  • Live a student’s life–learn some and think some and MacDraw and IPaint and Readnews and play Tetris and hack every day some.
  • Take a break every two hours from staring at the terminal.
  • When you go out in the world, watch out for network traffic, hold connections and stick together.
  • Be aware of wonder. Remember the little bytes in the chip: The code goes in and the graphics come out and nobody really knows how or why, but computers are all like that.
  • Pets and Lisas and DN350s and even the little bytes in the chip all die. So do we.
  • And then remember the Computer Reference Manuals and the first command you learned–the biggest command of all–Quit.

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