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It's interesting how many good and useful things come about because of one person.

Often, this is something that could be produced by a group of people or by one exceptionally talented person, and in practice it may happen only if that person happens to be in the right place at the right time.

I thought about this while reading in the Wikipedia article "Standard Template Library" that The architecture of STL is largely the creation of one person, Alexander Stepanov.

And this seems to be the case a fair number of other times in computing/programming in general, as well.

The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation

What if Abraham Lincoln had delivered the Gettysburg address not as a speech but as a PowerPoint presentation?

Peter Norvig has mocked up an example, showcasing typically-bad bite-sized PowerPoint bullet points rather than eloquent rhetoric.

It's not new, but I thought I'd mention it again.