Biographers Quote by Mark Bernstein

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

— Ted Nelson

“Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more,…

— Nicholas Carr

I'm so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

“The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will never be…

— Alberto Manguel

While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.”

— Maria Popova

Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.

— Jenna Wortham

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

— Ron Chernow

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

— Tim Berners-Lee

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

— Joichi Ito