Hypertext Quotes

#1. Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

Ted Nelson

#2. The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Ted Nelson

#3. Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

Mark Bernstein

#4. Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

Mark Bernstein

#5. So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

Ted Nelson

#6. Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

Steven Johnson

#7. The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.

Robert Cailliau

#8. The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it ... HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer.

Erik Naggum

#9. Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [ ... ] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.

Donald A. Norman

#10. What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.

Robert Cailliau

#11. WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

Tim Berners-Lee

#12. The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#13. Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.

William Hurrell Mallock

#14. There are definitely some hos on this campus," she began. "And plenty more in this city. And the fact that you're so different from those types only makes it that much more likely that you'll fetch a nice figure on eBay for the popping of your cherry," she joked suggestively.

Zack Love

#15. In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#16. Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from.

Margaret Atwood

#17. Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Douglas Wilson

#18. What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.

Jerry Harrison

#19. His eyes, bloodred, hold an apology I will never accept.

Victoria Aveyard