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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.

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Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

And this book may suggest to some computer professionals that their position should not be as sacrosanct as they have thought, either.

We should not impose regularity where it does not exist.

You can and must understand computers now!

Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.

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