Working with my colleague today, we were both talking about some of our IT mentors and inspirations:
His:
1)Bernie Galler
2)Grace Hopper
3)Wirth
4)Dykstra
Mine (in order of my life experiences), some not nearly as well known
1) My father who planted the seed and provded me the resources
2) My first computer tutor (name being researched)
3) Jeff Wilkins and Compuserve
4) Scott Nelson (my first Oracle mentor, 1991)
5) Micro Electronics, Inc. (Bill Bayne, Rick Cooper, "Lt." Mark Craven, "Cmdr" Larry "Cannonball" Sturtz, Belinda Turner, Greg Dun, and others)
6) Bill Joy, Larry Ellison, Ken "Dr. DBA" Jacobs, Woz, E.F. Codd
7) Turing
8) Rick Morrison (Access Guru, Columbus)
9) Raul Navarro Cantu, Gregg Houghton, Sue White, Matt Long (Temple-Inland)
10) Everybody at Moser Consulting...Suhy, Dustman, Howland, Ty, Brice, Ritesh Jariwala
11) Tom Kyte, Linus Torvalds, Rick Tucker and the xwave crew, Larry Gusto
...well you get the idea...
