• The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

    Jaron Lanier: The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.
    "Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel - interview". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.