People

Vannevar Bush

The Memex. To leverage the sum of knowledge.

J. C. R. Licklider

Man-Computer Symbiosis.

Doug Engelbart

Boosting mankind. To augment the intellect.

Ted Nelson

Systems humanist. The whole literature available to everyone anytime.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

The search for beauty and simplicity in computing as a mathematical discipline.

Eric S. Raymond

Unix and Open Source evangelist.