I Was Very Intensely Concerned With All

The Purpose Of Computers Is Human Freedom.

I Am A Design Chauvinist. I Believe That Good Design Is Magical And Not To Be Lightly Tinkered With. The Difference Between A Great Design And A Lousy One Is In The Meshing Of The Thousand Details That Either Fit Or Don't, And The Spirit Of The Passionate Intellect That Has Tied Them Together, Or Tried. That's Why Programming - Or Buying Software - On The Basis Of "lists Of Features" Is A Doomed And Misguided Effort. The Features Can Be Thrown Together, As In A Garbage Can, Or Carefully Laid Together And Interwoven In Elegant Unification, As In Apl, Or The Forth Language, Or The Game Of Chess.

The Ideas Keep Going, You Have The Material, You Cut Because There's A Limit To The Space Allowed To You. And The Space Is Limited Because Of Some Other Constraints That Have To Do With Money Or Printing Or Whatever.

So, The Point Was To Be Able To Have A Medium That Would Record All The Connections And All The Structures And All The Thoughts That Paper Could Not. Since The Computer Could Hold Any Structure In Any Form, This Was The Way To Go.

The Problem Is Not Software 'friendliness'. It Is Conceptual Clarity. A Globe Does Not Say, 'good Morning'. It Is Simple And Clear, Not 'friendly'.