60 Quotes by Ted Nelson

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Making things easy is hard.

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

We live in media, as fish live in water.

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.