Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi Károly; born September 10, 1948, son of Karoly Simonyi) is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship Office suite of applications. He now heads his own company, Intentional Software, with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of intentional programming. In April 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. In March 2009, aboard Soyuz TMA-14, he made a second trip to the International Space Station. His estimated net worth is US$1 billion.
Simonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Simonyi Károly (the elder), a professor of electrical engineering at Technical University of Budapest. While in high school he worked part-time as a night watchman at a computer laboratory, overseeing a large Soviet Ural IImainframe. He took an interest in computing and learned to program from one of the laboratory's engineers. By the time he left school, he had learned to develop compilers and sold one of these to a government department. He presented a demonstration of his compiler to the members of a Danish computer trade delegation.
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
Plot
This is a semi-humorous biographical film about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, acid-trip, amnesia, anterograde-amnesia, apple-computer, apple-inc, apple-macintosh-computer, arrogance, bad-trip
Good artists copy... Great artists steal.
Steve Jobs: Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are.::Steve Wozniak: We are?
Businessman: Steve - it is Steve, right? You say this gadget of yours is for ordinary people. What on earth would ordinary people want with computers?
Ballmer: Bill, I don't know if it's the clothes on the floor or you, but something in here definitely needs to be hosed down.
Steve Jobs: What is this? This is like doing business with a praying mantis. You get seduced, and then eaten alive afterwards?::Bill Gates: Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late.
Bill Gates: There may be a few... similarities.::Steve Jobs: Similarities? Similarities? Try theft.
IBM Executive: The profits are in the computers themselves, not this software stuff.
Mike Markkula: Steve Wozniak's employee number one, you're number two.::Steve Jobs: Wait a minute. I'm employee number one. Woz?::Steve Wozniak: Doesn't matter to me.::Steve Jobs: I'm employee number one around here.::Mike Markkula: I'm not saying anything. I wasn't implying anything.::Steve Jobs: All right, then I'll be zero. Woz, you can be number one. I'll be zero. Okay?
Steve Jobs: Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are! We have better stuff.::Bill Gates: You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!
Arlene: Steve, why do you care what I call the baby?::Steve Jobs: Because I don't want the baby named Rainbow! Or Orisha, or Ravi Shankar, or any other name like that.