“Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.”
Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist
“A Scientist’s Notebook: Life on Mars?” in Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1997, p. 119
“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web.”
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