I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.