To listen to Mr. Engelbart that day almost five years ago was to realize that the computer industry, when it started, was not simply about becoming a chief executive or retiring on stock options at 35. It was to remember that real innovation - the stuff that made computers so much more than "crummy factors of production" - comes from mysterious places, wild people, dreamers and tinkerers, and to remember all the skepticism they had to endure. (Ellen Ullman)

To listen to Mr. Engelbart that day almost five years ago was to realize that the computer industry, when it started, was not simply about becoming a chief executive or retiring on stock options at 35. It was to remember that real innovation - the stuff that made computers so much more than "crummy factors of production" - comes from mysterious places, wild people, dreamers and tinkerers, and to remember all the skepticism they had to endure.

Ellen Ullman

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