Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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.

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.

Making things easy is hard.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.