Editing Richard Brodie (programmer) (section)

===Early life===
Brodie was born in [[Newton, Massachusetts]], the elder son of Mary Ann Brodie and Richard Brodie, a child psychologist. He graduated from [[Newton South High School]] and entered [[Harvard College]] in the fall of 1977, concentrating in applied mathematics with an emphasis on computer science. He left Harvard after his sophomore year and moved to [[Palo Alto, CA]] to work for [[Xerox|Xerox Corporation's]] Advanced Systems Division (ASD), where he met [[Charles Simonyi]] and helped develop the [[Bravo (editor)|Bravo X]] word processor for the Alto computer.<ref name="Manes">{{Cite book |last=Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBtPAAAAMAAJ |title=Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=1994 |isbn=0-671-88074-8}}</ref> Simonyi became a mentor to Brodie at Xerox and took him along when he moved to [[Microsoft]] in 1981.