True. I think the spark for me getting into computing was that my parents took me to a thing at Cambridge University in the mid-1970s when I was a child. The th

True. I think the spark for me getting into computing was that my parents took me to a thing at Cambridge University in the mid-1970s when I was a child. The thing was for bright children and you could choose whatever you wanted to do and who to talk to. I chose to ask someone (either a professor or a postgrad) how a computer worked. This kind person sat down with a piece of paper and described a Turing machine. After that I went home and started imagining "programs" on paper. I didn't see a real computer until around 1980.