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

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

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

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

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