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Why would anyone choose amateur status in a world that worships expertise? The answer is that they do not choose it. Desperation chooses them.

The professionals — IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox — thought personal computers were toys. They were correct, in a way. The early machines were toys. But desperate amateurs saw in those toys the seeds of liberation. They wrote operating systems in their bedrooms. They soldered motherboards at kitchen tables. They made every possible mistake. And because they were desperate — because the mainstream economy had no place for them — they built a new economy. desperateamateurs libra desperate amateurs