The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

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.

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

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.