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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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Donna Grant

"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

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Donna Grant

"There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity."

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Donna Grant

"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."

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Donna Grant

"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc."

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Donna Grant

"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."

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Donna Grant

"If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man."

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Donna Grant

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."

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Donna Grant

"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."

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Donna Grant

"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."

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Ted Nelson
"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 to get out of your arms."

Creativity

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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."

Money

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Ted Nelson
"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."

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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."

Computer

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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."

Thought

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

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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
"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."

People

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Ted Nelson
"The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others."

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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."

Computer

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