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“So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.”

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

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I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most…

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

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You can and must understand computers NOW.

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Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much…

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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

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Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

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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…

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

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

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