A Computer Shall Not Harm

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?

I Hate Mice. The Mouse Involves You In Arm Motions That Slow You Down. I Didn't Want It On The Macintosh, But Jobs Insisted. In Those Days, What He Said Went, Good Idea Or Not.

An Unlimited-length File Name Is A File. The Content Of A File Is Its Own Best Name.

I Am Only A Footnote, But Proud Of The Footnote I Have Become. My Subsequent Work On Eliciting Principles And Developing The Theory Of Interface Design, So That Many People Will Be Able To Do What I Did Is Probably Also Footnote-worthy. In Looking Back At This Turn-of-the-century Period, The Rise Of A Worldwide Network Will Be Seen As The Most Significant Part Of The Computer Revolution.

When You Have To Choose Among Methods, Your Locus Of Attention Is Drawn From The Task And Temporarily Becomes The Decision Itself.