Steve Case
Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Steve Case
Born: August 21, 1958, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Computer-related contributions
- American businessman best known as the co-founder, former CEO, and chairman of AOL.
Honors and awards
- Inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame (2009).
- Appointed as a Citizen Regent of the Smithsonian Institution (2011).
Quotes
"And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal."
"All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody."