"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."

“I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.”

“After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee!”

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

“The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.”

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

“If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.”