Mark Bernstein Quotes & Sayings

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers. — Mark Bernstein

Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise. — Mark Bernstein

The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story. — Mark Bernstein

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper. — Mark Bernstein

On the end of WWII in Europe:

Few comments matched those of Bennie Smith, Howard K. Smith's wife, who told her husband: "No matter what terrible things happen in the future, we must remember this: we won. We might not have. They might have won. Think of what the world would have been like if they had won. Nothing can ever be as terrible as that. — Mark Bernstein

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext. — Mark Bernstein

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying. — Mark Bernstein