Computer Pioneers
- Johan Helsingius – creator and operator of The Penet remailer
- Jarkko Oikarinen – creator of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- Linus Torvalds – Initial creator of Linux kernel
- Michael Widenius – creator of MySQL
- Tatu Ylönen – creator of SSH
- Aapo Kyrölä - creator of Sulake
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“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”
—Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)
“The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman’s intelligent companionship.”
—Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960)