The Good News About Computers

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.

Everybody Has Only A 24-hour Day. Most People, If They Increase Consumption Of One Medium (like Magazines Or Books) Will Cut Down On Another (like Tv). This Drastically Reduces The Sort Of Growth Some People Have Been Expecting.

I Am A Design Chauvinist. I Believe That Good Design Is Magical And Not To Be Lightly Tinkered With. The Difference Between A Great Design And A Lousy One Is In The Meshing Of The Thousand Details That Either Fit Or Don't, And The Spirit Of The Passionate Intellect That Has Tied Them Together, Or Tried. That's Why Programming - Or Buying Software - On The Basis Of "lists Of Features" Is A Doomed And Misguided Effort. The Features Can Be Thrown Together, As In A Garbage Can, Or Carefully Laid Together And Interwoven In Elegant Unification, As In Apl, Or The Forth Language, Or The Game Of Chess.

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.

The Purpose Of Computers Is Human Freedom.