"Most manufacturers suffer from advanced, chronic bandwagonism: every time any one of them comes up with something new, it is immediately copied a dozen times over. This bandwagonism hurts everyone: the innovators have their ideas stolen; the bandwagonists must compete against many other companies amking an identical product, and the users get little freedom of choice in buying their computers and accessories. Bandwagonism has also tended to establish standards, most of them informal, incomplete, and harmful"-David Chapman "Programming Languages and Standards," DDJ, November 1978.
"Typical computer resources of many high schools consist of a single port connected to a district-owned BASIC time sharing computer or to a state or university consortion. Since only one student at a time may use the computer, each student in a class of 30 receives under nine minutes of time per week."-Jeff Levinsky, "Chaos: An Interactive Timeshared Operating System for the 8080," DDJ, January 1979.
"Bing Crosby recognized that the microphone opened up the possibility for more intimate communication with an audience...and developed new techniques to go with the new medium. As computers get smaller and are used in a more personal way by more people, we have to develop techniques of making software that can reduce the psychological distance between computers and their users"-Paul Heckel, "Zoomracks: Designing a New Software Metaphore," DDJ, November 1985.