"A user interface should be so simple that……" — Ted Nelson
"A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds."
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33 Quotes by Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson has 33 quotes on this site.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do…
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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Everything is deeply intertwingled.
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If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe…
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Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex…
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The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you…
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
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More Beginner Quotes
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one of 81 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
— Teresa of Avila
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You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have…
— Nolan Bushnell
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It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged…
— William Osler
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The…
— H. L. Mencken
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Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
— Theodore Roethke
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If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
— Edward Weston
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The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Every Chess master was once a beginner
— Irving Chernev
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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of…
— Ray Bradbury
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