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.

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

Power Corrupts, And Obsolete Power Corrupts Obsoletely.

The Objective Of Hypertext Research Is To Save The Planet.

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.