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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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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

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"All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content."

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"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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"Be content to seem what you really are."

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"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

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

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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

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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."

Content

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

Media

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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."

Time

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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
"So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided."

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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
"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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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."

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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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Ted Nelson
"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."

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