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

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

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.

We live in media, as fish live in water.

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.