alan kay: "... I needed a group because I had finally realized that I did not have all of the temperaments required to completely finish an idea. I called it the Learning Research Group (LRG) to be as vague as possible about our charter. I only hired people that got stars in their eyes when they heard about the notebook computer idea ...."

and i can imagen how adele goldberg had that "stars in her eyes" and she was at stanford: at the right place at the right time. adele goldberg: "the story of my life is an accident." well, but she did a lot to make things happen :))

are still there when she speaks about it.
Get on a group and do something. She did.
I still wonder when Smalltalk went from the LRG to the Software Concepts Group and became "serious software". Somehow i don't like the notion of serious software although i know it's gotta be serious for many things