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

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

We live in media, as fish live in water.

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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

Making things easy is hard.