— Malcolm HarrisThey weren’t serving the public, and they didn’t need approval from clean-shaven authoritative professor-administrators like Fred Terman or military bureaucrats like Bob Taylor, which left them and the cohort of tech workers they hired free to smell bad. (Historian Charles Petersen describes the transition as one from “bureaucratic” to “nerd” masculinity.)
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.