WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:04:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg appliance – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Raskin, Jef -- Interview in Susan Lammers, Programmers At Work (1986) https://wist.info/raskin-jef/54681/ https://wist.info/raskin-jef/54681/#respond Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:17:25 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=54681 Have you ever noticed that there are no Maytag user groups? Nobody needs a mutual support group to run a washing machine. You just put the clothes in, punch the button, and they get clean. To do information processing, I don’t want hardware and software; what I really want is an appliance to do my tasks.


Jef Raskin (1943–2005) American computer scientist, writer
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