I read through this memoir over the last week. I think it's one of the best things I've ever read. When I finished it I felt sad, like when you're a kid and you

I read through this memoir over the last week. I think it's one of the best things I've ever read. When I finished it I felt sad, like when you're a kid and you finish a great book and you feel sad because it's over. It's like an abbreviated Soul of a New Machine. The machine he's writing about was one of the great achievements in computing, according to Alan Kay.