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And a bunch of people on whose footsteps to follow, and on whose shoulders to stand (in no particular order and listed as they come to my mind now in free-flow): Alan Kay, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Theo de Raadt, Linus Torvalds, Eric S. Raymond, Rob Pike, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, John MacCarthy, John Conway, Martin Odersky, James Gosling, Guy Steele, Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, John Carmack, Peter Molyneux... Either their own words and works were inspirational or their stories told by others. As long as you keep in mind that their skills and genius in some areas doesn't prevent them to be blind-sided by their own beliefs in others. Like anyone else. (The 2 books listed above will already cover them fairly well, for most of them!)

Or less famous but nonetheless active technologists that are interesting to follow from afar: Neal Gafter, Martin Fowler, Don Syme, etc...

I was inspired by the works of these people, and the things they did to achieve (or abandon) their projects.

Sometimes it's more about a culture and a dream, and breaking barriers...

Reading the 2600 as a kid when my English was embyonic, the story of early phreakers like Captain Crunch or the birth of the PC era with Wozniak at Apple and reading books and essays by William Gibson and Neil Stephenson were also inspirational for me as a programmer, though it didn't relate to programming directly. In that vein, even the Hacker's Manifesto, the Agile Manigesto or even things like the IEEE Code of Ethics were and still are inspirational.

To read

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Sometimes it's more about people...

And a bunch of people on whose footsteps to follow, and on whose shoulders to stand (in no particular order and listed as they come to my mind now in free-flow): Alan Kay, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Theo de Raadt, Linus Torvalds, Eric S. Raymond, Rob Pike, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, John MacCarthy, John Conway, Martin Odersky, James Gosling, Guy Steele, Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, John Carmack, Peter Molyneux... Either their own words and works were inspirational or their stories told by others. As long as you keep in mind that their skills and genius in some areas doesn't prevent them to be blind-sided by their own beliefs in others. Like anyone else. (The 2 books listed above will already cover them fairly well, for most of them!)

Or less famous but nonetheless active technologists that are interesting to follow from afar: Neal Gafter, Martin Fowler, Don Syme, etc...

I was inspired by the works of these people, and the things they did to achieve (or abandon) their projects.

Sometimes it's more about a culture and a dream, and breaking barriers...

Reading the 2600 as a kid when my English was embyonic, the story of early phreakers like Captain Crunch or the birth of the PC era with Wozniak at Apple and reading books and essays by William Gibson and Neil Stephenson were also inspirational for me as a programmer, though it didn't relate to programming directly. In that vein, even the Hacker's Manifesto, the Agile Manigesto or even things like the IEEE Code of Ethics were and still are inspirational.

To read

To view

Sometimes it's more about people...

And a bunch of people on whose footsteps to follow, and on whose shoulders to stand (in no particular order and listed as they come to my mind now in free-flow): Alan Kay, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Theo de Raadt, Linus Torvalds, Eric S. Raymond, Rob Pike, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, John MacCarthy, John Conway, Martin Odersky, James Gosling, Guy Steele, Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, John Carmack, Peter Molyneux... Either their own words and works were inspirational or their stories told by others. As long as you keep in mind that their skills and genius in some areas doesn't prevent them to be blind-sided by their own beliefs in others. Like anyone else. (The 2 books listed above will already cover them fairly well, for most of them!)

Or less famous but nonetheless active technologists that are interesting to follow from afar: Neal Gafter, Martin Fowler, Don Syme, etc...

I was inspired by the works of these people, and the things they did to achieve (or abandon) their projects.

Sometimes it's more about a culture and a dream, and breaking barriers...

Reading the 2600 as a kid when my English was embyonic, the story of early phreakers like Captain Crunch or the birth of the PC era with Wozniak at Apple and reading books and essays by William Gibson and Neil Stephenson were also inspirational for me as a programmer, though it didn't relate to programming directly. In that vein, even the Hacker's Manifesto, the Agile Manigesto or even things like the IEEE Code of Ethics were and still are inspirational.

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  • 29.1k
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To read:

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To view

Sometimes it's more about people...

And a bunch of people on whose footsteps to follow, and on whose shoulders to stand (in no particular order and listed as they come to my mind now in free-flow): Alan Kay, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Theo de Raadt, Linus Torvalds, Eric S. Raymond, Rob Pike, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, John MacCarthy, John Conway, Martin Odersky, James Gosling, Guy Steele, Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, John Carmack, Peter Molyneux... Either their own words and works were inspirational or their stories told by others. As long as you keep in mind that their skills and genius in some areas doesn't prevent them to be blind-sided by their own beliefs in others. Like anyone else. (The 2 books listed above will already cover them fairly well, for most of them!)

Or less famous but nonetheless active technologists that are interesting to follow from afar: Neal Gafter, Martin Fowler, Don Syme, etc...

I was inspired by the works of these people, and the things they did to achieve (or abandon) their projects.

Sometimes it's more about a culture and a dream, and breaking barriers...

Reading the 2600 as a kid when my English was embyonic, the story of early phreakers like Captain Crunch or the birth of the PC era with Wozniak at Apple and reading books and essays by William Gibson and Neil Stephenson were also inspirational for me as a programmer, though it didn't relate to programming directly. In that vein, even the Hacker's Manifesto, the Agile Manigesto or even things like the IEEE Code of Ethics were and still are inspirational.

To read:

To view:

To read

To view

Sometimes it's more about people...

And a bunch of people on whose footsteps to follow, and on whose shoulders to stand (in no particular order and listed as they come to my mind now in free-flow): Alan Kay, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Theo de Raadt, Linus Torvalds, Eric S. Raymond, Rob Pike, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, John MacCarthy, John Conway, Martin Odersky, James Gosling, Guy Steele, Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, John Carmack, Peter Molyneux... Either their own words and works were inspirational or their stories told by others. As long as you keep in mind that their skills and genius in some areas doesn't prevent them to be blind-sided by their own beliefs in others. Like anyone else. (The 2 books listed above will already cover them fairly well, for most of them!)

Or less famous but nonetheless active technologists that are interesting to follow from afar: Neal Gafter, Martin Fowler, Don Syme, etc...

I was inspired by the works of these people, and the things they did to achieve (or abandon) their projects.

Sometimes it's more about a culture and a dream, and breaking barriers...

Reading the 2600 as a kid when my English was embyonic, the story of early phreakers like Captain Crunch or the birth of the PC era with Wozniak at Apple and reading books and essays by William Gibson and Neil Stephenson were also inspirational for me as a programmer, though it didn't relate to programming directly. In that vein, even the Hacker's Manifesto, the Agile Manigesto or even things like the IEEE Code of Ethics were and still are inspirational.

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