Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.