Ted Nelson

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

"If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards."

"I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. Such lucky g…"

"I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness o…"

"It is imperative for many reasons that the appalling gap between public and computer insider be closed. As the saying goes, war is too important to be left to the generals. Guardianship of the compute…"

"You can and must understand computers now!"

"A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds."

"The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management."