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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."

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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content."

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Amber Hurdle

"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it."

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Amber Hurdle

"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."

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Amber Hurdle

"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

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"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."

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"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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"But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded."
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"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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"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."
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"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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"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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"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
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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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"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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"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."
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