Love Alan Kay. Went to a series of talks as part of a week of education for an old employer. We had several very highly qualified people speak to us about various challenges in IT. They were all quite "normal". Alan Kay's talk blew me away because it was so left-field. Interesting guy.
The guy is sickening! Not only did he come across as very likeable he also dropped in that as a child he had to decide between going into computer science or becoming a professional jazz musician (I think he played guitar).
Choosing between musician and computer genius is bad enough but to retain being likable with this is frankly too much :-)
