Think Of The Computer As A Spiritual

I Like Stuff Designed By Dead People. The Old Designers. They Always Got It Right Because They Didn't Have To Grow Up With Computers. All Of The People That Made The Spoon And The Dishes And The Vacuum Cleaner Didn't Have Microprocessors And Stuff. You Could Do A Good Design Back Then.

Organization Makes A System Of Many Appear Fewer.

Videogames Are Indeed Design: They're Sophisticated Virtual Machines That Echo The Mechanical Systems Inside Cars.

A Book Is A Human-powered Film Projector (complete With Feature Film) That Advances At A Speed Fully Customized To The Viewer's Mood Or Fancy. This Rare Harmony Between Object And User Arises From The Minimal Skills Required To Manipulate A Bound Sequence Of Pages. Each Piece Of Paper Embodies A Corresponding Instant Of Time Which Remains Frozen Until Liberated By The Act Of Turning A Page.

We Seem To Forget That Innovation Doesn't Just Come From Equations Or New Kinds Of Chemicals, It Comes From A Human Place. Innovation In The Sciences Is Always Linked In Some Way, Either Directly Or Indirectly, To A Human Experience.