The Graphical Interface and Educational                                      Resistance 

I see no advantage whatsoever to the graphical user interface
...Bill Gates, 1981

The graphical user interface was first developed by Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. After a visit to this lab, Steve Jobs, the chairman of Apple Computers, bought the idea and named it Macintosh. "For many, this event has been heralded as the most significant conceptual breakthrough in the history of PCs" (Jukes & McCain, 1997). Eventually, even the recalcitrant Bill Gates adopted the graphical interface into his Windows operating system.