Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application. — 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
