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.

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

Making things easy is hard.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

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.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

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