The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

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

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.