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

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

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

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.

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.