People

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Hackers, proto-hackers, programmers and such

• Guido van Rossum
• Timothy Budd
• Marvin Minsky (known for work on artificial intelligence, among other things)
• John McCarthy (creator of the Lisp language, among other things)
• Dennis Ritchie (C, Unix)
• Brian Kernighan (C, Unix)
• Donald Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming)
• Eric Raymond

Friends, colleagues, acquaintances, enemies

• Lee-Z
• Ron Stephens
• Jennifer McSparin
• Pascal de Jong

Misc.

• Justin Frankel: Rolling Stone interview (creator of WinAmp, WASTE, etc.)
• Richard Garriott: MobyGames profile
• Jeff Minter: GameSpy interview; the history of llamasoft part 1, 2