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What a huge contribution he made. As big as spell check. On the other hand the auto fill guy should be shot


5 posted on 02/21/2020 7:10:19 AM PST by gibsonguy
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“What a huge contribution he made.”
Back in the day, I worked with an IBM Fellow at IBM Yorktown Heights, that invented the cursor. That was a great achievement as well.


6 posted on 02/21/2020 7:15:42 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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Amen


7 posted on 02/21/2020 7:19:48 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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On the other hand the auto fill guy should be shot..........ship.........shoe..........sh!t............


9 posted on 02/21/2020 7:20:31 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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“What a huge contribution he made. As big as spell check. On the other hand the auto fill guy should be shot”

Yes.


22 posted on 02/21/2020 7:52:34 AM PST by madison10
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LOL!!!

This is a sentiment I heartily agree with many times a day (especially the part about auto fill/correct/spell).

Mr. Tesler (autocorrected to Feeler on first input):

Despite my moderate to severe carpal tunnel syndrome (brought on by years and years of typing reports as a defense analyst), I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your invention of the copy, cut, and paste functions. They helped me to do work that would have taken hours and days in just seconds or minutes and thereby permitted this office drone to have a successful marriage, family life, educate my children, and save enough to retire. I’m sure many others, upon thoughtful reflection, will also realize how much your inventiveness helped them as well.

Well done, sir. Well done.

Rest In Peace, confident in the knowledge that your contributions to the world did improve people’s lives and will continue to do so for many generations to come.

Journey well.


41 posted on 02/21/2020 9:02:04 AM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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