Names!
I haven’t met them, but I have heard about them – on the internet, in the books. Someday, I will make up a list about people I would have met by then, from this list.
Bill Gates - co-founder, Microsoft
Mark Zuckerberg - founder, Facebook
Mark Russinovich - of Sysinternals fame
Kevin Rose - creator, Digg
Jonathan Schwartz - CEO, Sun Microsystems
Larry Ellison - co-founder, CEO, Oracle Corporation
Anand Agarawala - of BumpTop fame
Jordan Mechner - Designer, Prince of Persia
Matt Mullenweg - founding developer, WordPress
Michael Arrington - maintainer, Techcrunch
Nicholas Carr - writer and blogger
Paul Graham - the essayist
Jamie Zawinski - xscreensaver fame
Donald E. Knuth - father of analysis of algorithm, TeX
Kent Brewster - writer; and for web-based prototypes
Bill Joy - winner Grace Murray Hopper Award, 1986
Tim Bray - XML, Atom, W3C
Why the Lucky Stiff - creator, Why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby
more names will be added with time (and hopefully, quite frequently)
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