mkramlich

I'm the author of a book about a space pirate so I got a particular thrill about that moment in the book/movie. (The Dread Space Pirate Richard.)

What if it contains secrets Man was not meant to know?

George Clinton quote? rang a bell. won't google, more natural.

if this is who I think it is, Dan Bricklin, I want to chime in to say thank you for VisiCalc, sir! I was a user and big fan of your work.

for the kids/newbs: effectively the (co)inventor of The Spreadsheet. and consider that spreadsheets were easily the killer app for the first PC's, thus giving them much more business value, in turn causing more money to flow in, helping to create many more paying jobs, etc, in a happy snowball effect which leads to Linux, Google, AWS...

here's where you might say, "sorry, different Bricklin." oops