The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

Making things easy is hard.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

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

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.