---
title: "Dinner with Engelbart"
date: 2005-10-07T07:52:18-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/10/07/dinner-with-engelbart/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides]
---

# Dinner with Engelbart

<blockquote cite="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/10/06#When:4:12:22AM">Five years ago I had dinner with Doug Engelbart.</blockquote><small style="text-align:right; display:block">Source: <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/10/06#When:4:12:22AM">Scripting News: 10/6/2005</a></small><br />
Color *me* <span style="color: #2a2">envious</span>.  I'm not sure what *I'd* have to say to the man that'd come off as intelligent, but I'd love to pick his brain about [the mouse](http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html) and [human augmentation](http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/EngelbartPapers/B5_F18_ConceptFrameworkInd.html).