Alan Kotok

thumb|200px|Alan Kotok Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation, the World Wide Web Consortium and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also remembered for contributions to Kotok-McCarthy and Spacewar! created with classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quotes I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground. On skiing; quoted in John E. McNamara Remembering Alan's Humor 2006 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html 2006-12-26 I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start. on flying; quoted in John E. McNamara Remembering Alan's Humor 2006 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html 2006-12-26 It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money. on business travel; quoted in John E. McNamara Remembering Alan's Humor 2006 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html 2006-12-26 We hadn't invented 'Not Invented Here', yet. quoted in Peter Hurley or Jack H. Stevens A History of TOPS in alt.sys.pdp10 <1995Jan13.151041.8661@eisner> 13 January, 1995 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pdp10/msg/17a1d08377234f79 2006-12-26 External links Category:Computer scientists from the United States Category:People from Philadelphia Category:2006 deaths Category:1941 births Category:Engineers from the United States Category:Electrical engineers