Making Things Easy Is Hard.

They Were Saying Computers Deal With Numbers. This Was Absolutely Nonsense. Computers Deal With Arbitrary Information Of Any Kind.

The World Is Not Yet Finished, But Everyone Is Behaving As If Everything Was Known. This Is Not True. In Fact, The Computer World As We Know It Is Based Upon One Tradition That Has Been Waddling Along For The Last Fifty Years, Growing In Size And Ungainliness, And Is Essentially Defining The Way We Do Everything. My View Is That Today’s Computer World Is Based On Techie Misunderstandings Of Human Thought And Human Life. And The Imposition Of Inappropriate Structures Throughout The Computer Is The Imposition Of Inappropriate Structures On The Things We Want To Do In The Human World.

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 Limited Because Of Some Other Constraints That Have To Do With Money Or Printing Or Whatever.

I Have Long Been Alarmed By People's Sheeplike Acceptance Of The Term 'computer Technology' - It Sounds So Objective And Inexorable - When Most Computer Technology Is Really A Bunch Of Ideas Turned Into Conventions And Packages.

I See Professionalism As A Spreading Disease Of The Present-day World, A Sort Of Poly-oligarchy By Which Various Groups (subway Conductors, Social Workers, Bricklayers) Can Bring Things To A Halt If Their Particular Demands Are Not Met. (meanwhile, The Irrelevance Of Each Profession Increases, In Proportion To Its Increasing Rigidity.) Such Lucky Groups Demand More In Each Go-round - But Meantime, The Number Who Are Permanently Unemployed Grows And Grows.