Bill Atkinson

Computer Scientist

1951-03-17

Bill Atkinson is an American computer engineer and photographer known for key software innovations on the original Apple Macintosh, including QuickDraw and HyperCard.

Quotes by Bill Atkinson

You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.
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