Right, and it was also mentioned in the article. Alan Kay's essay by the same title is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080107173514/http://www.iam.unibe.ch/

Right, and it was also mentioned in the article. Alan Kay's essay by the same title is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080107173514/http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker/old/_A_bicycle_for_the_mind_.html http://web.archive.org/web/20080107173514/http://www.iam.uni... Some other similarities off the top of my head: Alan Kay also often speaks about "building systems", and both this article and Steve himself talked about Apple's advantage being "good system integration". Objective-C, inspired directly from one of Alan's brain-children, was at the core of the value of NeXT, which Steve started, and is still at the core of all of Apple's developer platforms. I don't know if the two have ever met, but I think they certainly hang out hang out with similar-minded folk... ;)