Word: allen
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Learning BASIC language from a manual with his pal Paul Allen, Trey produced two programs in the eighth grade: one that converted a number in one mathematical base to a different base, and another (easier to explain) that played tic-tac-toe. Later, having read about Napoleon's military strategies, he devised a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination...
...best friend was Kent Evans, son of a Unitarian minister. "We read FORTUNE together; we were going to conquer the world," says Gates. "I still remember his phone number." Together with Paul Allen, they formed the official-sounding Lakeside Programmers Group and got a job writing a payroll system for a local firm. A furious argument, the first of many, ensued when Allen tried to take over the work himself. But he soon realized he needed the tireless Gates back to do the coding. "O.K., but I'm in charge," Gates told him, "and I'll get used to being...
...Everyone Says I Love You All singing, all dancing, all talking, as they used to say. In Woody Allen's lovely flight of fancy, the singing is often kind of croaky, the dancing sort of klutzy and the dialogue pure Woody--the noises that psychologically aware, politically correct people make when they are at desperate sexual cross-purposes. But such folks are entitled to their romantic yearnings. This film's good-humored poignance--and high originality--lies in the contrast drawn between the characters' passionate desire to put a little music in their lives and their inability to carry...
...Mike Allen, a reporter for The Washington Post, said Harvard students should seek jobs at large papers and big stations...
...Harvard kids should definitely go straight to the big leagues," Allen said. "If nothing else, you're around bright people, and you'll be there when the opportunity to step in comes...