Ted Nelson

In Xanadu, every quote lives forever, linked but not copied.

Life is intertwingled; so should our machines be.

Tim Berners-Lee stole my ideas, but he made them work.

The medium is the message, but the links are the magic.

We need to think of documents as living entities, not dead trees.

Failure is the spice of success in invention.

Hyperland is where ideas roam free.

The computer revolution needs poets, not just programmers.

Royalty on links: that's how creators get paid in the future.

I invented hypertext so you could follow your nose through knowledge.

The tragedy of the Web is its lack of persistence.

In my youth, I saw the world as a great tangle to be unraveled by machines.

Don't get sucked into the vortex of version control; transclude instead.

Humor in computing: when the machine laughs back.

The mind is a wonderful thing; let's augment it properly.

Xanadu failed because the world wasn't ready for elegance.

Links should pay tribute to their sources.

Intertwingularity is the essence of complexity.

I prefer the chaos of creation to the order of bureaucracy.

The future of writing is not linear; it's a web of wonders.