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.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

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

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.