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Larry Tesler

1938 - 2020

Larry Tesler was an American computer scientist and user interface designer, renowned for his pioneering work in human-computer interaction. He is best known for creating the concepts of "cut," "copy," and "paste," which have become fundamental to digital text editing. Throughout his career, Tesler worked for influential companies including Xerox PARC, Apple, and Yahoo!, contributing significantly to the development of user-friendly software interfaces.

  1. AI is whatever machines can't do yet.

    Larry TeslerDouglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, 1979, p. 601