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

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

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

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