Any Fool Can Use A Computer. Many

They Were Saying Computers Deal With Numbers. This Was Absolutely Nonsense. Computers Deal With Arbitrary Information Of Any Kind.

So, What You Can Do In Microsoft Word Is What Bill Gates Has Decided. What You Can Do In Oracle Database Is What Larry Ellison And His Crew Have Decided.

The World Wide Web Is Precisely What We Were Trying To Prevent. We Long Ago Foresaw The Problems Of One-way Links, Links That Break (no Guaranteed Long-term Publishing), No Way To Publish Comments, No Version Management, No Rights Management.

I See Professionalism As A Spreading Disease Of The Present-day World, A Sort Of Poly-oligarchy By Which Various Groups (subway Conductors, Social Workers, Bricklayers) Can Bring Things To A Halt If Their Particular Demands Are Not Met. (meanwhile, The Irrelevance Of Each Profession Increases, In Proportion To Its Increasing Rigidity.) Such Lucky Groups Demand More In Each Go-round - But Meantime, The Number Who Are Permanently Unemployed Grows And Grows.

The Purpose Of Computers Is Human Freedom.