From 2007:<p><i>... I&#x27;m sure someone will let me know, probably by tying a nice note to a nice red brick and hurling it through my window. You should see the email I get sometimes.</i><p>I think you can estimate the maturity of a culture by how easy it is to commit heresy.  There is simply no excuse for how people reacted to his writing.  It reflects poorly on all of us.<p>Maybe Alan Kay is right that we (the IT industry) are a pop culture, complete with our own sort of Kanye West.