Pier Giorgio Perotto



Pier Giorgio Perotto (December 24, 1930 – January 23, 2002) was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor. Working for the manufacturer Olivetti, he led a design team that built the Programma 101, the world’s first personal computer.

Quotes

 * I dreamed of a friendly machine to which you could delegate all those manual tasks which are prone to errors. A machine that could quietly learn and perform tasks, that could store simple data and instructions, that could be used by anyone, that would be inexpensive and the size of other office products which people used. I had to create a new language which did not need interpreters in white coats.
 * Pier Giorgio Perotto, P101, Edizioni di Comunità, Rome, 2015.