As it has swept through corporate America, the Internet has brought along its infantry of young things, from hard-core programmers (any computer language learnt more than a decade ago is obsolete, as are many of those who learnt it) to the young generalists to whom thinking in web terms is second nature.
Those, like him, who succeeded were "all hustlers, who learnt their entrepreneurship on the street".
"Imagine," says Violet, "I am girl from the village who learnt how to ride a motorbike.
Chris Bryant Former Foreign Office minister who learnt police had found his details when they raided Mulcaire's office.
And I'll try to be more like Ben Garrido, who learnt Korean: "I'm not embarrassed by any of it.
Many of the killers were children, children who learnt to smash babies' skulls against the rough bark of a "killing tree" before later being killed themselves.
It is a gap that divides a cadre of centre-left politicians who learnt to love the market and cherish the Atlantic alliance from its less dogmatic successor.
We've been selling stairlifts for 40 years – and now we're selling to the sons and daughters of our original customers, who learnt about the benefits 40 years ago.
Mr Ramadorai, who learnt mathematics at his father's knee and earned degrees in physics, electronics and computer science, was not above picking up a screwdriver or pliers.
Prog-rock keyboardist Keith Emerson was among the many British musicians of the period who learnt from him, before forging their own divergent worlds.
He was cultivated though never intellectually aloof, a straight talker who learnt the value of diplomacy, a charmer and wit who refused to stint on matters of principle.
