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.

The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.

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

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

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

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.