The Game changer club
They are the Dreamer, Inventor, Creator, the designer who is the frontier in the modern world.
Price of Creation: 70000 Million
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
September 9, 1941
From: Bronxville, New York, U.S.
C programming language
Creation: Computer science
Estimated Earning:$ 120000
UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.
Aaron Swartz
November 8, 1986
From: Aaron Hillel Swartz
Software developer, writer, internet activist
Creation: Mathematics, Computer science
Estimated Earning:$ 2380000
Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
Donald Ervin Knuth
January 10, 1938
From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus
Creation: Mathematics, Computer science
Estimated Earning:$ 560000
Premature optimization is the root of all evil
Tim Berners-Lee
8 June 1955
From: London, England
Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford
Creation: The inventor of the World Wide Web
Estimated Earning:$ 760000
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past
Bjarne Stroustrup
30 December 1950
From: Aarhus, Denmark
Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the C++
Creation: the inventor of the World Wide Web
Estimated Earning:$ 470000
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Linus Torvalds
28 December 1969
From: Helsinki, Finland
the distributed version control system Git and the scuba dive logging and planning software Subsurface
Creation: developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions
Estimated Earning:$ 870000
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
Guido van Rossum
31 January 1956
From: The Hague, Netherlands
the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Van Rossum wrote and contributed a glob() routine to BSD Unix
Creation: The creator of the Python programming language
Estimated Earning:$ 720000
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
James Gosling
May 19, 1955
From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java
Creation: designer behind the Java programming language
Estimated Earning:$ 950400
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.
Richard Stallman
March 16, 1953
From: New York City, New York, US
Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
Creation: Free software movement,GNU,GNU Emacs,GNU Compiler Collection,GNU General
Estimated Earning:$ 650800
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
Brian Kernighan
January 1, 1942
From: Toronto, Ontario,Canada
contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language
Creation: contributed to the development of Unix
Estimated Earning:$ 650800
Don’t comment bad code — rewrite it
Grace Murray Hopper
December 9, 1906
From: New York City, U.S
Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.
Creation: Pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.
Estimated Earning:$ 70800
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
Alan Kay
May 17, 1940
From: Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S
American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts.[2]
Creation: Pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design
Estimated Earning:$ 770800
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.