A document is not necessarily a simulation of paper. In the most general sense, a document is a package of ideas created by human minds and addressed to human minds, intended for the furtherance of those ideas and those minds. Human ideas manifest as text, connections, diagrams and more: thus how to store them and present them is a crucial issue for civilization.—Ted Nelson

“There is often more power in “knowing how” rather than “knowing that.” The markers used to navigate a river are indeterminate in order to be practical. … The aim is to offer not solutions, but rather mechanisms for generating solutions.”

— Keller Easterling, Extra-statecraft