#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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Now He's on the Path for Juvenile Delinquents
In under eight years this person considered unfit to graduate from public high school in Plainview Texas had earned herself a PhD in computer science. At the minimum age of 17 and a half Clark asked his mother to sign the piece of paper that permitted him to join the Navy. In September 1961 when the rest of his high school class returned for its senior year he left Plainview for basic training just outside of New Orleans. When he arrived at training camp he was given along with every other recruit a multiple choice aptitude test. To most of the questions several different answers struck him as at least partially correct. The Navy assumed that he knew that circling more than one answer fooled the computer that graded the tests
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