On the wall are these pretty awesome photos of many of the founders and inventors behind modern-day computing.
1) Doug Englebart - the GUI and Mouse
2) Dennis Ritchie - C and Unix
3-4) Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston - Visicalc and Spreadsheets
5-6) Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard - HP
7) Gordon Moore - Intel
8) Grace Hopper - First compiler that led to development of COBOL
9-10) Robert Khan and Vinton Cerf - TCP/IP
11) Steve Wozniak - Apple I and II
Of course, the following deserve a place of the wall of fame as well:
12) Steve Jobs - Apple
13) Bill Gates - Microsoft
14-15) Larry Paige and Sergey Brin - Google
16) Jeff Bezos - Amazon
17) Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
On one hand, these are people like you and I, who live, feel joy and pain, and one day die. In the end, we're all just flesh and blood, plus a soul that is our moral compass.
But on the other hand, G-d has given some people special gifts to pass to mankind, like a master painter, musician, inventor, or holy person, whose worldly works are as near to G-dly as perhaps we can get outside of Heaven itself.
G-d must have a plan for us as he sends us these people--or more like angels--to guide our development and our destiny.
Whatever G-d wants from us, we're definitely on a course to get there and that is comforting and a ray of hope for all of us. ;-)
(Source Photos: Andy Blumenthal)
