Weinberg's Law A Quote by Gerald Weinberg quoteinvestigator.com If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. programmingmakingarchitecturequality
The Mother of All Demos A Lecture by Douglas Engelbart en.wikipedia.org A name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration, presented by Douglas Engelbart on December 9, 1968. The 90-minute presentation essentially demonstrated almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design interfacestechnology