> Smalltalk and the ideas it was based on revolutionized personal computing. There is raw, unbridled genius in it and that should be widely recognized.

This is not historically correct. What we understand today by "personal computer" was described by Butler Lampson in his famous paper in 1972 and was first realized in the famous Alto Computer. The first desktop GUI and the first WYSIWYG applications for the Alto were implemented in BCPL (not Smalltalk). The first version of Smalltalk, which most closely corresponds to our todays understanding of Smalltalk, did not appear until 1976, and two other important features were not even introduced until 1980. So if you are looking for geniuses, you will need to increase your search range a little.