If Computers Are The Wave Of The

Making Things Easy Is Hard.

The World Is Not Yet Finished, But Everyone Is Behaving As If Everything Was Known. This Is Not True. In Fact, The Computer World As We Know It Is Based Upon One Tradition That Has Been Waddling Along For The Last Fifty Years, Growing In Size And Ungainliness, And Is Essentially Defining The Way We Do Everything. My View Is That Today’s Computer World Is Based On Techie Misunderstandings Of Human Thought And Human Life. And The Imposition Of Inappropriate Structures Throughout The Computer Is The Imposition Of Inappropriate Structures On The Things We Want To Do In The Human World.

Computers Are Hierarchical. We Have A Desktop And Hierarchical Files Which Have To Mean Everything.

But It Seemed To Me That As Soon As You Have Computer Storage You Could Put Every Point You Wanted In - Make The Ones That Are Less Relevant To Your Central Topic, Further Away Or Allow The Central Topic To Move As The Reader Proceeded.

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.