Robert Fano Quotes

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work.

Robert Fano

Learning, Thinking, People

6 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Fernando J. Corbato

J. C. R. Licklider

Phil Karn

Michael Dertouzos

Popular topics

Robert Fano

Follow

Born: 1917
Died: July 13, 2016
Occupation: Scientist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics