“Right about that first year at PARC, under psychotherapy, I discovered I was confusing my talent with my temperament,” he said. “I didn’t have the temperament of a programmer. I realized I needed a group.” This epiphany resembled that of a poet suddenly finding his voice. Like all the self-educated, having once grasped an idea Kay was impatient to move onto the next. He was a man of bifurcated nature, simultaneously a peerless formulator of theory and an instinctive craftsman with a short attention span. Having spent decades as an intellectual lone wolf, Kay redirected his gift for
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