History Quote by Steven Johnson

“example, developed the World Wide Web as a lead user working at CERN. The World Wide Web was certainly”

— Eric von Hippel

“HTML originated from a prototype of a language created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992. Berners-Lee felt that there was a possibility of linking documents…

— Aravind Shenoy

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will…

— Mark Bernstein

“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to…

— Basil Mahon

“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

“The hyperconnectivity made possible by the Internet has acted as a massive accelerator for the “small sparks” that fuel the refinement of ideas.”

— Belsky, Scott

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

— Thomas Watson, Jr

“New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.”

— Allen Guy Wilcox

“A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the…

— Annie Dillard

“He had abundant free time, which he spent working on a series of new theorems in the field of information theory.”

— Neal Stephenson

“He knows more about science than we do, and he's a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much on machines.…

— Nancy Farmer