The second half of that quote is often omitted but I would argue is as important as the first: "Above all I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if

The second half of that quote is often omitted but I would argue is as important as the first: "Above all I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible sales-men. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it that you can make it more." I've seen a lot of people in this community be dismissive of those outside if it except when they can court them as customer. I think this is a mistake. I would argue that we hackers are the vanguard of technological progress (well, as far as computers and electronics are concerned), but the vanguard isn't the only part to be concerned with. There is the long tail of everyone else who finally get the refined, consumer result of the prototypes we hack together (either for our employers, the company we found, or the things we sell independently). We need to understand that and make sure their needs and their safety are kept in mind while working on things. You'd be surprised what people can learn and what changes they can make if they have a safe space to do it in and they have the confidence that if they make a mistake that it's not going to end in catastrophe - either financially or physically.