The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

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

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.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

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

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.

Fame is a Bleet, man.

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

The city that has speed has success.

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.