“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”
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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
