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Marc Andreessen:
What we were trying to do was put a human face on the Internet. The Internet at that point was a tool for researchers and scientists. You had to be a UNIX hacker if you were to use it.*
Vinton Cerf:
We began doing concurrent implementations at Stanford, BBN, and University College London. So effort at developing the Internet protocols was international from the beginning.
Dave Cutler:
Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.
Michael Dell:
Our industry is more like an ecosystem where you have lots of companies working together. Some create ingredients, some create systems, some have distribution and sales, some have a combination of all of the above.
Doug Engelbart:
I had thought if we show this to the world, within a matter of months the research community would say, 'Let's go after this kind of online flexible work.' What happened? Nothing. One guy thought it was a hoax and got very upset and angry.*
Bill Gates:
It was a wild time. It was a very exciting time. We started when I was 19, and so we had a lot of energy.*
Steve Jobs:
It was remarkable—especially for a 10 year old—that you could write a program in BASIC, let's say, or FORTRAN, and this machine would take your idea, execute your idea, and give you back some results. If they were the results that you predicted, your program really worked.*
Bob Metcalfe:
I wanted to be a professor at MIT. They would not have me, so they forced me to take much more money to move to Palo Alto, California, to be surrounded by some of the world's best computer scientists with no students to deal with and no teaching load and an infinite budget for capital equipment. It was horrible.*
Gordon Moore:
In a business like this, the people with the power are the ones [who] have the understanding of what's going on, not necessarily the ones on top.*
Ray Tomlinson:
It was just a hack. And the next step was to get other people to try using it, because so far I'd only sent mail to myself first and then to the other people in my group.*
Linus Torvalds:
(post on the comp.os.minx Usenet newsgroup): Hello everybody out there using minix. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU) for 386 (486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat.*
Quotes from Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet by Stephen Segaller, copyright 1998, Oregon Public Broadcasting. Reused with permission.
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