Computers

Computers are the most faithful servants of man, after dogs.

The purpose of a computer is to do things for humans that humans find boring/mundane/repititive.

And the art of teaching a computer to do things for you is called programming.

Writing a simple operating system from scratch [pdf] is probably a good idea to learn the low-level details of how a computer works

Some links

• Keeping yourself safe while using a computer
• Quitting Google
• Using public key cryptography
• The web and web development