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Ted Nelson

"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 them to do."

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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."

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"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."

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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."

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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"

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Akshay Vasu

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

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"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."

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Ted Nelson
"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 trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes."

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

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Ted Nelson
"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."

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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 limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever."

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Ted Nelson
"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 with them from the conventions of the computer field."

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Ted Nelson
"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."

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Ted Nelson
"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 that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go."

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Ted Nelson
"I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media."

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"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 like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything."

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Ted Nelson
"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 a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented."

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