— Malcolm HarrisIf their government customers wanted to bring a computer to Chile, it wasn’t a programmer’s job to know that the end user needed it to index future murder victims. Computers can be used for lots of things. Serenity was Palo Alto’s prize for excising its radicals; Stanford was an innocent boy once again.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.