Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

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.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

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 conveniently be presented or represented on paper.