You can always start out with the Wikipedia article. Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, Bob Barton and others worked on the software. I think the quote you are lo

You can always start out with the Wikipedia article. Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, Bob Barton and others worked on the software. I think the quote you are looking for is: My best results have come from odd takes on ideas around me -- more like rotations of point of view than incremental progress. For example, many of the strongest ingredients of my object-oriented ideas came from Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad, Nygaard & Dahl's Simula, Bob Barton's B5000, the ARPAnet goal, Algebra and Biology. One of the deepest insights came from McCarthy's LISP. But the rotational result was a new and different species of programming and systems design that turned out to be critically useful at PARC and beyond.