"People ask me if '6-6-6' is in the microchip. As God is my witness, intentionally we did not put this in there. The computer that I was working on prior to designing this was called a Data-Net 30. It had an 18 bit word: three 6 bit characters. When I began to design the logic for this thing I went ahead and designed it as an 18 bit word. I wasn't worried about parity and the other things on there. I just said, Well, I'm gonna use an 18 bit word. Little did I know, I did not know anything about what was in the Bible. All I wanted to do was get this thing done. And so I used an 18 bit word: three 6 bit characters -- 6-6-6 -- it's all through the 250,000 components of this little microchip."