Ted Nelson Quotes
- Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
- But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones…
- I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make…
- I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
- Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
- So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
- So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying…
- So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts…
- The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything…
- 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 limited…
- The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry…
- The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell…
- So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison…