From As We May Think

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This was of course what Vannevar Bush said in 1945, in an article everybody cites but nobody reads. In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly. Hypertext at last offers the possibility of representing and exploring it all without carving it up destructively.

This was of course what Vannevar Bush said in 1945, in an article everybody cites but nobody reads.

In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly. Hypertext at last offers the possibility of representing and exploring it all without carving it up destructively.