information technology

🇺🇸Newton Lee

Literature

"It is high time we treated drug abuse and terrorism as diseases instead of wars -- curing the patients rather than killing them."

🇬🇧Tim Berners-Lee

Technology

b. 1955

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

🇨🇭Niklaus Wirth

Science

1934–2024

"Programming is usually taught by examples."

🇮🇳N. R. Narayana Murthy

information technology

b. 1946

"Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance."

🇺🇸Sergey Brin

Technology

b. 1973

"If what you’re doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough."

🇺🇸David Pogue

Science

b. 1963

"For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, "Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it."

🇺🇸Jon Postel

Science

1943–1998

"In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior."

🇺🇸Ted Nelson

Philosophy

b. 1937

"Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong."

🇺🇸Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Science

b. 1944

"The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems."