Alan Kotok

Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation, the World Wide Web Consortium and CSAIL. He is also remembered for contributions to Kotok-McCarthy and Spacewar! created with classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
  • On skiing; quoted in
    
    • I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.
      • on flying; quoted in
        
        • It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.
          • on business travel; quoted in
            
            • We hadn't invented 'Not Invented Here', yet.
              • quoted in
                

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                • It's as I feared: a bunch of people who don't know very much complaining about the fact the world is the way it is.
                  • On removing himself from UUNET newsgroup on RISC machines