Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
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?
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that. " Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
I am not in any hurry to grow up.
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.