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Humans can be a Jack of all trades. We know a lot about many different things. And we still may be stupid at everything. It's okay to be Human, but what about Jack?

Heroes of Tech

The people whose work I build on every day.

Portrait of Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

Linux · Git

Created the Linux kernel in 1991 and built Git to manage it.

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Portrait of Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

GNU · Emacs · GPL

Founded the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation; wrote Emacs and GCC.

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Portrait of Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

C · Unix

Created the C programming language and co-created Unix at Bell Labs.

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Portrait of Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson

Unix · B · UTF-8

Co-created Unix and the B language; later co-designed UTF-8 and Go.

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Portrait of Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum

Python

Created Python — the language this very site runs on.

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Portrait of John Carmack

John Carmack

Doom · Quake

id Software co-founder; pioneered real-time 3D graphics in Doom and Quake.

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