Eugene Jarvis (Eugene Peyton Jarvis) Quotes

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

Eugene Jarvis

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

  

  Eugene Jarvis
  • Teenager
  • Computer
  • Impulse