Sticker Puzzle School

At just the right moment I walked up and asked, БЂњAre you going to throw that away?БЂ«And the lady looked at me, puzzled, and said, БЂњHere, itБЂ™s yours,БЂ«as if she was giving me this big Christmas present. Which she was. Seibel: What was on that paper? Steele: It was fan-fold paper from a Selectric terminal on which they had been demonstrating APL for the past two days. Just little programming examples of whatever they had happened to type in. And from that and the brochure they had on the trade-show floor, I taught myself APL. Seibel: So you were very comfortable at MIT but you ended up going to Harvard and working at MIT. What happened? Steele: By the time I was applying to colleges I applied to MIT, Harvard, and Princeton and really wanted to go to MIT. I got accepted at all three. The headmaster of Boston Latin School was Wilfred L. OБЂ™Leary, an oldschool classicist, a wonderful gentleman. He called up my parents and said, БЂњDo you realize that your son is actually considering going to Tech when he has an acceptance at Harvard?!БЂ«So he twisted their arms and they twisted my arm and I decided to go to Harvard after all ...»