Ted Nelson Quotes

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• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
• Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
• Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
• Everything is deeply intertwingled.
• If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
• I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more…
• Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not…
• The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins,…
• A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
• The purpose of computers is human freedom.
• Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
• Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts.…
• You can and must understand computers NOW.
• 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…
• Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
• What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of…
• The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
• Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

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