So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

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

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

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

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.

You can and must understand computers now.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.