After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee! — Ted Nelson

"Everything is deeply intertwingled."

"In order for something to Catch On, it has to be standardized. Unfortunately, there is motivation for different companies to make their own little changes in order to restrict users to their own products. The best example of how to avoid this: Philips patented its audio cartridge [i.e. the standard audio "cassette"] to the teeth, but then granted everyone free use of the patent provided they adhered to the exact standard. The result has been the systems spectacular success, and Philips, rather than dominating a small market, has a share of a far larger market, and hence makes more money. Thats a virtue-rewarded kind of story."

"The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you cant follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management."

"[Of the web] Its massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it."

"We should not impose regularity where it does not exist."

"I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages."