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Quotes from The Man Who Invented the Computer — Jane Smiley

born 1949 United States

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Undecided about whether to pursue art or engineering, he pursued engineering, but with a continued interest in design—for his senior school project, he had designed a city of the future (à la Fritz Lang's Metropolis) based on a hexagonal grid. Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.

The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jane Smiley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.