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

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

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.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

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

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