David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I didn't have the money to buy them.

And I tried quite hard for quite a while to get into it, but it just never clicked.

And then I discovered the magic of piracy.

And after that, I basically just took some time off from learning the program because...

Well, now suddenly I had access to all sorts of games.

So that was the first attempt, like around six, seven years old.

And what's funny is I remember these fragments.

I remember not understanding the purpose of a variable.

If there's a thing and you assign something, why would you assign another thing to it?

So for some reason, I understand constants.

Constants made sense to me, but variables didn't.

Then maybe I'm 11 to 12.

I've gotten into the Amiga at this point.

The Amiga, by the way, still perhaps my favorite computer of all time.

I mean, this is one of those things where you're like, people get older and they're like, oh, the music from the 80s was amazing.

To me, even as someone who loves computers, who loved new computers, the Amiga was this magical machine that...

was made by the same company that produced the Commodore 64.

And I got the Amiga 500, I think in 87.

This is from an age, by the way, where computing wasn't global in the same sense.

The different territories had different computers that were popular.