The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring...

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring...

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What...

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What...

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to...

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to...

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all...

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all...

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary...

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary...

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I...

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I...

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could...

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could...

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

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

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which...

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which...

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the...

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the...

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms...

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms...

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do....

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do....

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should...

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should...

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

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

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the...

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the...