Quotes About Guis

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.

So GUIs use metaphors to make computing easier, but they are bad metaphors.