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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (username: dmr): 1941-2011

Creator of C (the programming language), key developer of Unix. As fellow innovator Rob Pike puts it,

"Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel — that pretty much the entire Internet runs on -- is written in C [G: This includes the foundations of Apple's OS X]. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. And all of the network hardware running these programs I can almost guarantee were written in C. It's really hard to overstate how much of the modern information economy is built on the work Dennis did."

Hats off to you, Sir Dennis, and many thanks.

#include 

int main(void) {
    printf("goodbye, world\n");
    return 0;
}