Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Douglas Engelbart (American Inventor)

Douglas Carl Engelhart (1925–2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and an early computer- and Internet-pioneer. A pioneer of human-computer interaction, he led the team that developed hypertext, networked personal computing, and precursors to graphical user interfaces (GUIs.)

Born on a farm near Portland, Oregon, Engelhart studied at Oregon State University and, after serving as a radar technician in the U.S. Navy during World War II, at the University of California. After a stint at NASA’s Ames Research Laboratory, he took up a position at the Stanford Research Institute, where he became a pioneer of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET,) the Internet’s forerunner.

Throughout the 1960s, Englebart’s lab developed a hypermedia-groupware system called NLS (oNLine System.) His best-known invention is the computer mouse (1963; with William English.) He also helped develop many of the features that are now integral to modern computing, including e-mail, groupware, and hypermedia.

Engelhart had a massive impact on the world of computing via what became known as “the mother of all demos,” which he gave at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco in 1968. In addition to the computer mouse’s public début, Engelhart and his team demonstrated hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking, and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.

In 1989, Engelhart founded the Bootstrap Institute for research into advanced computer technologies.

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There’s a double pressure on the evolution of every organization: how you evolve to be more capable and effective, and efficient, but also how you stay in synch with the rest of the environment.
Douglas Engelbart

If ease of use was the only requirement, everybody would still be riding tricycles.
Douglas Engelbart

People have got to become more effective at handling complex problems—at their daily struggle with complex and urgent issues. The survival of man seems dependent upon it. Any reasonable possibility seen by society for increasing that effectiveness should warrant serious investigation.
Douglas Engelbart

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Douglas Engelbart
Topics: Maturity

Human beings face ever more complex and urgent problems, and their effectiveness in dealing with these problems is a matter that is critical to the stability and continued progress of society.
Douglas Engelbart

The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.
Douglas Engelbart

Today’s environment is beginning to threaten today’s organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design…. The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.
Douglas Engelbart
Topics: Business

In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
Douglas Engelbart

The complexity of the problems facing mankind is growing faster than our ability to solve them
Douglas Engelbart

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
Douglas Engelbart

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