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.

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.

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

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

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.