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

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

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

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