Important+People+in+Programming+History

Important People in Programming History  There are so many different things that have been invented to improve computers and computer programming. But not just one person made all of it. Here are some people that made a big impact on the history of computers and programming history.

**Ada Lovelace**  - She made the analytical engine in  **1843.** **Famous quote:** //"In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation."// **Alan Turing**  - He made the Turing Machine **in 1937.** **Famous quote:** //"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**John von Neumann** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He made the von Neumann architecture <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**in 1945.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**John W. Backus** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He made the FORTRAN in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1954.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn’t like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701, writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**John McCarthy** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He created the Lisp in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1958.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"Program designers have a tendency to think of the users as idiots who need to be controlled. They should rather think of their program as a servant, whose master, the user, should be able to control it. If designers and programmers think about the apparent mental qualities that their programs will have, they’ll create programs that are easier and pleasanter — more humane — to deal with."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Ken Thompson** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Dennis Ritchie** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - They made the Unix in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1969** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the B programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1969** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and the C programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1972.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous Dennis quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn’t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous Ken quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Donald Knuth** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He made the TeX and MMIX in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1978.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Bjarne Stroustrup** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He created the C++ programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **1983.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Richard Brodie** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- He created Microsoft Word in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1983.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"When the teenage Bill Gates caught the poker-playing mind virus at Harvard, was that harmful because it kept it from his studies? Or was it beneficial because it helped sway his decision to drop out, start Microsoft and become a multi-billionaire?"// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Richard Stallman** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He was a Emacs editor and a lead architect of the GNU project in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1983.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous Quote** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Larry Wall** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He created Perl programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1987.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Many days I don’t write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Guido van Rossum** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- He made Python programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1989.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Tim Berners-Lee** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Robert Cailliau** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - They made HTTP, HTML, and the World Wide Web in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1990.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous Tim quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous Robert quote** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Linus Torvalds** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He made the Linux Kernel and the Git revision control system <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1991.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">." <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**James Gosling** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- He made the Java programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1995.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"If you come up with a good software development tool, that makes life easier for the developers and they can get their job done quicker, then the first thing the manager says is ‘oh you’ve got free time on your hands. Do this extra thing.'"// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**John D. Carmack** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He is the Co-founder of id Software and Game Programmer. He made the Doom source code in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1997.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(This person has no quote) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Tim Sweeney** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- He was the founder of Epic Games and was a Unreal engine programmer. He made the Unreal Engine from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1995 - 1998.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//In 100 years, after the last C and C++ programmers are long gone, there will still be LISP enthusiasts. But don’t expect large-scale software development to happen this way."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Rasmus Lerdorf** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- He created the PHP programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1995.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?"// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Anders Hejlsberg** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He made the Turbo Pascal in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1981,** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the Delphi <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**1999** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and C# programming language in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**2000.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"With a lot of programs today, you’re not only saying what you want the program to do, you are saying in painful detail how you want it done. The way we get to take advantage of all of the progress in CPUs and memory is offloading some of that ‘how to’ to the infrastructure."// <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**David Heinemeier Hansson** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - He created Ruby on Rails in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #93c47d; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**2004.** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Famous quote:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"Flexibility is not free. It’s overrated. And if you trade that flexibility in for some constraints, you get a lt of complexity removed from the equation, you get a lot of productivity back from all the stuff you don’t have to do// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">."

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0ea300; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As you can see, these are just some of the many people that helped improve computers and computer programming.

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