50 Years of an Institution - LEGO still rocks

I hear from Michael that LEGO is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

I'm quite certain that LEGO and my natural desire to build, destroy, rebuild, morph, combine and synthesize formed a virtuous circle in my childhood that had a significant impact in setting me off down the path my interests and career have taken.

Hats off to a marvelous Dane - if LEGO isn't cool, I don't know what is.

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Published 30 January 08 04:13 by GarethJ
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# MSDN Blog Postings » 50 Years of an Institution - LEGO still rocks said on January 30, 2008 1:53 AM:

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# Cyril said on January 30, 2008 6:59 AM:

"if LEGO isn't cool, I don't know what is."

Oh yeah, oh so true...

Without much introspection really, I do have the feeling that the mere LEGO's existence played a major role in arousing my curiosity, and improving my intellect to build things. Not to mention the pleasant side effect of having fun doing so.

Building things that work *first* in the realm of ideas, and *then* in our real world, even with those "dumb" binary machines, is so... well, rewarding. Yep. :)

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