Au commencement était la ligne de commande

What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem, and enumerated all of the dissatisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don’t like having choices made for you, you should start making your own.
Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line, https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

Je n’ai pas encore lu l’essai de Neal Stephenson (écrit et publié en 1999) sur les liens entre ligne de commande et interface graphique, mais je ne résiste pas à partager ce texte (en version format texte).