Yeah, Alan Kay says things to that effect, too. Another way to look at it is, assigning all the credit for those "trillions in value" to Xerox PARC (my oh my, c

Yeah, Alan Kay says things to that effect, too. Another way to look at it is, assigning all the credit for those "trillions in value" to Xerox PARC (my oh my, creating so much value and capturing so little? how did that happen?) is a warped way to look at the history of computing and thus is the perfect example of the problem that makes you "embarrassed to work in this industry." As to Niels Bohr... I think the transistor or the concept of decidability are more like what physicists do/achieve than OO or WIMP interfaces. One can disagree with that but one can also agree with that, I think, even if their age is above 20, their memory spans whole years etc. etc.