[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

— Alan Kay, Rolling Stone article (1972)

Source: http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

From a 1972 Rolling Stone article.

Topics: programming, creativity