Condensed Rant

 “Ted Nelson’s hatred of conventional structure made him difficult to educate. Bored and disgusted by school, he once plotted to stab his seventh-grade teacher with a sharpened screwdriver, but lost his nerve at the last minute and walked out of the classroom, never to return. On his long walk home, he came up with the four maxims that have guided his life: most people are fools, most authority is malignant, god does not exist, and everything is wrong.”

Gary Wolf in “The Curse of Xanadu,” WIRED 3.06, June 1995.

"Or, to say it in another way, the paradigm of rational mind as the epitome of the intelligence of the humancreature, is dissolving rapidly and we feel it more and more personally all the time. It's like HAL, the computer in the movie 2001, is being disconnected....only this time, HAL is us." Anon.