What Users Want Is Convenience And Results.

Users Do Not Care About What Is Inside The Box, As Long As The Box Does What They Need Done.

A Computer Shall Not Waste Your Time Or Require You To Do More Work Than Is Strictly Necessary.

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

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

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?