The purpose of computers is human freedom.

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

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

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.

Making things easy is hard.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?