Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in -… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'. — Ted Nelson Copy Share
I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most… — Ted Nelson Copy Share
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead. — Ted Nelson Copy Share
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much… — Ted Nelson Copy Share
The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it. — Ted Nelson Copy Share
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? — Ted Nelson Copy Share
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death. — Ted Nelson Copy Share
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is… — Ted Nelson Copy Share
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. — Ted Nelson Copy Share
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. — Ted Nelson Copy Share
