Ted Nelson
Information technologist who coined the terms 'hypertext' and 'hypermedia' and envisioned project Xanadu.
Quotes by Ted Nelson
The computer should be a tool for discovery, not just a tool for retrieval.
The problem with most digital systems is that they are designed to be disposable.
The future of computing is about making the invisible visible.
The computer should be a tool for empowerment, not just a tool for efficiency.
The web is a prison for content, not a liberation.
The computer should be a tool for understanding, not just a tool for processing.
The future of computing is about creating new ways of thinking.
The web is a giant, unorganized library with no librarian.
The computer should be a tool for connection, not just a tool for isolation.
The problem with most digital systems is that they are designed to be closed, not open.
Hypertext is the world's most powerful technology for thinking.
The Web is a wonderful tool, but it is not hypertext.
Transclusion is the key to true hypermedia.
Computers are to thinking as bicycles are to walking.
I don't believe in the future of computing; I believe in its present.
The Xerox PARC people are the real heroes of personal computing.
Hypertext undoes the linear tyranny of the book.
We must design systems that allow for the messiness of human thought.
Xanadu was my dream of a world where all information is connected without loss.
The internet is a leaky abstraction of what hypertext should be.