[edw519]

Skimming this, I noticed a few mistakes.

Also, the story started a little too late for me. I would have loved to have heard about pg's earlier inspiration...I often wonder if he drew it from the same places as me: the classrooms of Doc Shultz, John Drumm, Adrienne Kapisak, Laura Mikesell, and Linda Sproull, and of course the computer lab and chess club at Gateway High School. I wonder how he ended up in computers instead of history, art, or literature. Funny how time flies. We've both come a long way since Monroeville, Pa.

Perhaps a future blog post?

[pg]

I did write about that once: http://paulgraham.com/heroes.html