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

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

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

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

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

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.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.