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.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

You can and must understand computers now.

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

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

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.