All Ted Nelson Quotes
- They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. Absolutely
- Any fool can use a computer. Many do. Any
- Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry Design
- In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. Computer
- So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. All
- Everything is deeply intertwingled. Deeply
- If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards. Computer
- 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… Believe
- 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… Body
- 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,… Breaking
- A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Beginner
- The purpose of computers is human freedom. Computer
- Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. Authority
- 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.… Attention
- You can and must understand computers NOW. Computer
- 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… Along
- 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. Acknowledged
- 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… Browser
- The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it. Anybody
- Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. Computer