Douglas Engelbart Quotes


It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.


Citations

Markoff, John. "Pioneer of the Computer Mouse Wins $500,000 Prize." The New York Times, 10 Apr. 1997, p. D5.

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Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart
  • Born: January 30, 1925
  • Died: July 2, 2013
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Inventor

Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.