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.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.