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“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.”

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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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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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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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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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