Andy Hertzfeld & other Geniuses

How on earth has it taken me so long to find this site? It is essentially a blog by Andy Hertzfeld, but it contains a VERITABLE wealth of Apple history stories:

http://www.folklore.org/

TramTown—why on earth have I not found this on your site?? Talk about letting the side down!

Oh, and if you don't know Who Andy Hertzfeld or Burrell C. Smith are, or why Woz's disk controller was so cool—do yourself a treat and put in some quality reading time.

A comparison just came into my mind ... having just finished reading Richard Feynman's semi-autobiographical Surely you're joking Mr Feynman, it strikes me as interesting that a common trait to "genius" types is that they are far more at home talking in short interesting (often funny) anecdotes. Don't think I'm saying that they like wasting time—in fact it is because not a single thought is wasted that makes their anecdotes worth reading. Even reading about Dick Feynman trying to get a date can be insightful.

I have some of the annoying sides of being a "genius" type (with far too few of the useful ones), but I know a lot ov *very* smart people and they all tell stories, all the time.

Interesting...