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Computer Quotes by Ted Nelson
- 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.
- In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
- If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
- The purpose of computers is human freedom.
- 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…
- Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
- 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…
- 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 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…
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- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker