Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925, in Oregon) is an American inventor of Norwegian descent, and winner of the 1997 Turing Award. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with William English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world's increasingly more urgent and complex problems (which Horst W. J. Rittel and others since have called wicked problems).

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• "The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed."
  • Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times, 9/19/05 http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-11395_3-5869719.html?pagewanted=print
• "The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better."
  • Computer History Museum - Fellow Awards