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.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

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

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

Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.