The Purpose Of Computers Is Human Freedom.

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.

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.

The Web Is Trivially Simple - Massively Successful And Its Like Karaoke - Anybody Can Do It.

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.

A User Interface Should Be So Simple That A Beginner In An Emergency Can Understand It Within Ten Seconds.