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

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.