The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.

— Ted Nelson, Ted Nelson's Home Page (1998)

Source: http://xanadu.com.au/ted/XU/XuPageKeio.html

From his home page, dated November 17, 1998.

Topics: software design, web development