Complicated Quote by Ted Nelson

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

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

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

— Ted Nelson

You can and must understand computers NOW.

— Ted Nelson

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

— Ted Nelson

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

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

— Ted Nelson

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

— Ted Nelson

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

— Ted Nelson

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

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

— Ted Nelson

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

— Ted Nelson