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

The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

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