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''I still kneel and cry when some situations arise,'' said Michael Dertouzos, director of the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has made a hobby of inveighing against the vagaries of computers. ''So I call up my absolute top people in the laboratory, and they end up on the floor, kneeling and crying.''

NYT, May 28, 1998, “Do Computers Have to Be Hard to Use?” Katie Hafner