MIT is a national treasure
Honestly speaking, if he played around on an Apple II, this happened almost 30 years ago when the computer industry was still brand-new. Not to denigrate him, his achievements, or MIT, but the world <i>is</i> different now.<p>It's an awesome anecdote, and I am a big fan of MIT, but consider this my preemptive counter-argument to the inevitable, "Here, see, more proof of why you should drop out of high school!"<p>(though, after all's said and done, I do hope MIT is not <i>too</i> different from the MIT that accepted him back then)