Michael Hart
Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Michael Stern Hart
Born: March 8, 1947, in Tacoma, Washington, USA
Death: September 6, 2011 (Age: 64)
Computer-related contributions
- American author, best known as one of the inventors of the electronic book (or ebook) and the founder of Project Gutenberg, a project to make ebooks freely available via the Internet. Most of the early postings were typed by Hart himself.
- At the beginning of Project Gutenberg, Hart began posting text copies of such classics as the Bible and the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. By 1987, he typed a total of 313 books in this fashion.
Quotes
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."