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  "path": "/threads/software-dependence-and-fear-of-change-ive-made-some-pleasant-discoveries-about-quicken.2634617/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-10T03:36:07.000Z",
  "site": "https://forums.anandtech.com",
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  "textContent": "Let me try to compress nearly 30 years of personal finance habits into small paragraphs.\n\nI started working with Intuit Quicken -- there are various incarnations -- maybe in 1995. Both I and a friend who was an Asst. US Attorney were very enthusiastic about the program, just as we had become devotees of Intuit Turbo-Tax. During ORACLE training in Vienna, VA, I discovered my teacher there was the very same young woman who I'd always find waiting at the entrance of the UCR library during my comings and goings.. She had been an English major, got hired by Boeing, and developed SQL expertise eventually ending up working for ORACLE. She used Intuit's software as an example of a \"robust\" product.\n\nI just chose to work with Quicken Home & Business the way I found it to be useful. I would set up a personal budget in a 12-column Excel spreadsheet -- that's certainly useful, but it doesn't lend itself to precise book-keeping and accounting. What materialized in the 12 annual...\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Software dependence and fear of change:  I've made some pleasant discoveries about Quicken"
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