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 convenie….

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do..

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more..

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns..

Any fool can use a computer. Many do..

Making things easy is hard..

Everything is deeply intertwingled..

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat ….

The purpose of computers is human freedom..

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

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely..

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds..

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….

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lous….

We live in media, as fish live in water..

The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is ba….

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'..

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not.….

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong..

The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed l….