The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

Up to now, I've been able to avoid Windows NT because the computers that control the power system are for the most part VAXes. But as more things we use, such as time sheets and discrepancy reports, migrate to the NT network, I'll need to do NT. I don't know what will happen; all I can do is try.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.