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The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold

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Born: February 2, 1953 (age 72)

Bio: Charles Petzold is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and was named one of Microsoft's seven Windows Pioneers.

Known for:

Programming Windows (1988)
The Annotated Turing (2008)
Programming Microsoft Windows with C# (2001)
3D programming for Windows (2007)

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