If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.