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Eugene Jarvis

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

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Eugene Jarvis is saying that he became fascinated by how computers can be controlled and programmed to do whatever a person, even a teenager with big, sometimes unrealistic ideas, wants them to do. He highlights the power of computers to follow the strong, sometimes excessive desires of their user.

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