Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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

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

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.