Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 programming visionaries who ignited the PC software revolution

"Programmers at Work… does for budding software writers what the Paris Review interviews did for would-be fiction writers. It provides comfort, inspiration, and a sense of community with those who have already succeeded in the field…it is not to be missed.” - Erik Sandberg-Diment, The New York Times

They had 64 kilobytes. They built the world.

At the outset of personal computing, the engineers who invented it had almost nothing to work with — and used that nothing to create everything. Progr...