The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting. — 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 Image
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 Image
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
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 Image
The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
