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Jef Raskin

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

Computers

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The quotation highlights how computers often behave in unexpected or frustrating ways, similar to an absurd and inconvenient event happening regularly. It points out that people accept these problems without protest, even though they would likely complain if such issues happened in everyday life.

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