The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

Making things easy is hard.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.