“I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I b…” — Ted Nelson

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.