John Gage

John Burdette Gage is an American computer scientist and technology executive born in 1942. He was the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, where he served as vice president and director of the Science Office and coined the phrase The Network is the Computer. After leaving Sun in 2008, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner focused on green technologies before departing in 2010 to pursue broader global initiatives.