Any Nitwit Can Understand Computers,

But It Seemed To Me That As Soon As You Have Computer Storage You Could Put Every Point You Wanted In - Make The Ones That Are Less Relevant To Your Central Topic, Further Away Or Allow The Central Topic To Move As The Reader Proceeded.

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

I Thought I Was Going To Be A Filmmaker But At The Same Time I Was An Intellectual And I Felt That I Could Make A Contribution To Some Field, As Yet, Not Invented.

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.

Regularity Chauvinists Are People Who Insist That You Have Got To Do The Same Thing Every Time, Every Day, Which Drives Some Of Us Nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - We Need A More Positive Term For That. Hummingbird Mind, I Should Think.