[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 20680]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     HONORING CHUCK GESCHKE AND JOHN WARNOCK FOR THEIR INNOVATIVE 
                ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

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                            HON. ZOE LOFGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 28, 2006

  Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Mr. Chuck 
Geschke and Mr. John Warnock, founders of Adobe Systems, Inc. Although 
each man is most definitely worthy of his own separate congressional 
accolade, it is their teamwork and their shared passion that created a 
company that invented new forms of communication that assists thousands 
if not millions of people on a day-to-day basis.
  Mr. Geschke and Mr. Warnock are industry pioneers in the true spirit 
of Silicon Valley. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock 
worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, PARC. Unable to convince 
Xerox management of the commercial value of Mr. Warnock's Interpress 
graphics language for controlling printing, the two boldly left Xerox 
to start Adobe. At their new company, they developed an equivalent 
technology, PostScript, from scratch and brought it to market.
  Today, their technology is ubiquitous. It assists hundreds, if not 
thousands of businesspeople, families, artists, entrepreneurs and 
dreamers in sharing their ideas across platforms and without 
boundaries.
  Their ignition of the desktop publishing revolution through 
PostScript technology created new opportunities for the use, 
digitization and compression of ideas, images, and text. Their vision 
has evolved into a multi-solution approach to various challenges that 
include household names such as Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop--no 
longer a circus performer, an artistic occupation and a place to get 
film developed--but cool new ways to communicate, efficiently and 
clearly.
  Geschke and Warnock's entrepreneurial success has been chronicled by 
some of the country's most influential business and computer industry 
publications, and they have received numerous awards for technical and 
managerial achievement, including their most recent, the Medal of 
Achievement Award from the American Electronics Association.
  Innovation is rarely the effort of one person or one idea, but is 
rather the symbiosis of knowledge, intellect, genius, creativity, 
entrepreneurship, risk-taking and, in Silicon Valley, a kind of 
fleeting wing-and-a-prayer faith that things will turn out for the 
best. Mr. Geschke and Mr. Warnock have certainly filled the giant 
footsteps of their predecessors by taking their bold idea, based upon 
well-studied science and invention, moving forward with it and daring 
to do the impossible.
  It is an honor to stand here in the shadow of their achievements and 
thank them for their contributions and the example they have set for 
the hopeful engineers, entrepreneurs and businesspeople of the coming 
generations.

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