"Thus far the primary visual symbolic structure of hypertext is language printed to the screen, but, as hypertext theorist Don Byrd suggests, print is a 'content, not the form, of electronic media.'"
"Like diners in the restaurant of Douglas Adams's novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, authors and publishers in the late age of print watch their universe bang into being and implode into a black hole with each revolution."
-- Joyce, Michael, Hypertext and Hypermedia, in Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy & Poetics (Michigan, 1995).
"Another Zen thought: The Atom is the past. The symbol of science for
the next century is the dynamical Net.
The Net icon has no center--it is a bunch of dots connected to other
dots."
-- Kelly, Kevin, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley, 1995).
"Hypertext linking sinuates the present text at the center of the textual universe, thus creating a new kind of hierarchy, in which the power of the center dominates that of the periphery."
"With the disolution of this hierarchy, any attached text gains an importance it may not have had before."
-- Landow, George P., Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992).