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A Well-designed And Humane Interface Does Not Have To Be Split Into Beginner And Expert Subsystems.

If I Had Not Studied Music, There Would Be No Macintosh Computers Today.

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?

If I Am Correct, The Use Of A Product Based On Modelessness And Monoty Would Soon Become So Habitual As To Be Nearly Addictive, Leading To A User Population Devoted To And Loyal To The Product.

A Computer Shall Not Harm Your Work Or, Through Inaction, Allow Your Work To Come To Harm.