Listeners prefer music played on tuned instruments. Diners prefer food not laced with ground glass. Readers tend to read more when handed well-formed text. And the foreseeable future of the web � lurid broadband fantasies of Steves Case and Ballmer notwithstanding � is text.

The fading propagandists of usability, as an adjunct to detesting beauty, have always hated text.

Users don�t read
Users only scan
Users haven�t got
No attention span

Quoted from Textism