Our culture is itself a vast writing space, a complex of symbolic structures...Just as our culture is moving from the printed books to the computer, it is also in the final stages of the transition from a hierachical social order to what we might call a 'network culture.'
- Jay David Bolter, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991
"knowledge is distributed throughout the network...The representation of knowledge...is distributed among the strengths of the connections [links!] between the units"
- George Landow quoting Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and Rise of the Sciences of Complexity, 1989 in Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology, 1992, George P. Landow
Imagine a city of text.
- Michael Joyce in Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, The University of Michigan Press, Michael Joyce, 1995