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

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

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

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

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.

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