Personal influences

Heroes

People whose work makes me want to build things, or find out how they did it.

Linus Torvalds

Says it as he sees it. His attitude can be wrong, but it's honest. Created Linux, then almost incidentally created Git.

I enjoy his content and interviews. A great ambassador for Microsoft, and not afraid to say what he thinks.

Grew up reading his Sysinternals blogs. Always get something out of his interviews. This guy is just awesome.

Quake. And he knows the tech matters.

Every game he made was great. Such fond memories of Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga.

Elite. That alone is enough. Finding out Braben was a founding trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation was a surprise. Very cool.

Really enjoyed watching him on Channel 9, before it got commercialised.

Loved watching him explain Reactive Extensions on Channel 9. Both the ideas and how he explained them.

Just too clever for school.

I literally couldn't believe his CV when I read his website.

Seems very balanced in the world of AI.

Windows NT was so good compared to Windows 95 and the like. Literally awesome.

A business leader I think I could trust.