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

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

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

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

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

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