I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis.
If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.
An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is. " If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.
This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.