I was stunned that I could be playing with PageMaker and doing work -- laying my galleys, stuff I'd done in the real world with real objects -- and when I went home at night and remembered what I'd done that day, I remembered working with my hands. I didn't have this image in my head of this digital text block being moved by a cursor. In my mind, I was grabbing galleys and sticking wax on them and laying them down. To me, working with a good interface is working with my hands.

Kevin, someone who doesn’t think of himself as a computer guy, somehow ended up the in-house sage on matters digital. Periodically, the boys would ask him, “What is this icon on the desktop, HyperCard?” To which he would always answer, “That is a black hole from which we will never return.”