On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT), Whisky-dave wrote:
On Oct 16, 1:57*am, Rich wrote:
The underpinning of our computer world rides on this fellow's and his
colleague's efforts, not Apple adult toys.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/i...hie-obit-bell-
labs/index.html
Welll it's easy isn;t it, how about Michael Faraday ?
Without him I doubt they#'d hads been a C program or UNIX.
But we can never really say whether or not one person has the
ultimate
of importance in their field as most relay on others.
Then what aboput teh first grpoup of peole that invented the written
word or symbol
without them deniis ritchie or even ourselves would probalby be
learning/teaching
how to skin animals or sowing corn or whatever, even camera designers
would be
working in fieilds.
So I';m not sure how relivant it is to go back as say one person isn't
as important as another.
I;'d heard that the reason WWII came about was because Hitlers mother
was going to have an abortion
but her doctor talked her out of it, so is that doctor responsible for
WWII .
And the Virgin Mary should have said "No".