Arms Quote by Ted Nelson

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

— Nicholson Baker

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is…

— Donald A. Norman

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

— Theodore White

“Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment’s…

— Edwin Black

Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on…

— Kevin Young

“footnotes are peculiar things, you know—like footpaths twisting through a wild and anarchic country. They split, then they split again; at any point you…

— Stephen King

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes…

— Barry Diller

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

— Maria Popova

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Maybe they were nothing more than a footnote.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

— Vladimir Nabokov