I enjoyed Marc Goodner’s blog entry about his disappointing encounter with Doug Englebart, inventor of the mouse and other amazingly visionary ideas.  I was skeptical, but after looking at Doug’s Bootstrap Institute site, I was unable to resist putting some of his text into the visual context it invoked in me:

(OK, I didn’t quote it accurately - I couldn’t resist misspelling Englebart’s name!  And I hope Scott Adams doesn’t come looking for me…)