Ted Nelson

“The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to prevent.”

“Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.”

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

“You can and should understand computers NOW.”

“Transclusion is the most fundamental concept of hypertext.”

“The good news is, we have everything before us. The bad news is, it's all crap.”

“Filing is a sacred act.”

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

“The purpose of computers is human freedom.”

“The idea of a 'file' is a holdover from the paper world.”

“Everything is deeply intertwingled.”

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

“I'm not a visionary. I'm a person who has a lot of ideas and the persistence to try to make them happen.”

“Our goal is not to create a 'better' Web, but a completely different one.”

“I have a photographic memory, but I've left the lens cap on.”

“I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with.”

“The Web is a pale shadow of what it could have been.”