Long Nguyen | 18 Jul 2012 19:47
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Re: Alan Kay in the news [german]

Dear Dr. Kay,

May I ask, how would you type on a computer if you cannot play keyboards?

Best,
Long

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Alan Kay <alan.nemo@...> wrote:
> I should mention that there is both garbling and also lots of fabrication in
> this report.
>
> I didn't say "abandon theory" -- I did urge doing more real experiments with
> software (from which the first might have been incorrectly inferred).
>
> But where did all the organ stuff come from? I never mentioned it, so it
> must have been gleaned from the net. And I suddenly became a better organist
> than I every was. And he had me touring around when I have not been able to
> play keyboards for four years because of a severe shoulder trauma from a
> tennis accident.
>
> But the University of Paderborn and faculty and students were very
> hospitable, and it was fun to help them dedicate the building.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
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Gmane