The Purpose Of Computers Is Human Freedom.

The Paperless Office Is Possible, But Not By Imitating Paper. Note That The Horseless Carriage Did Not Work By Imitating Horses.

I Have Long Been Alarmed By People's Sheeplike Acceptance Of The Term 'computer Technology' - It Sounds So Objective And Inexorable - When Most Computer Technology Is Really A Bunch Of Ideas Turned Into Conventions And Packages.

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

The Four Walls Of Paper Are Like A Prison Because Every Idea Wants To Spring Out In All Directions - Everything Is Connected With Everything Else, Sometimes More Than Others.