I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.