You know, if my parents had worried that I was going to become a 'hacker' and banned me from the computer (rather than forcing to work even more on it to fix it whenever they broke it) then perhaps I wouldn't have wasted so much of my teenage years.

I could have learned to express myself with music, developed my writing talent, become a more literate and informed individual, put more effort into my quest for art on the stage. It certainly would have saved me a few close calls with the police and the company of some rather unsavory characters.

I would probably also have gotten laid more often...