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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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Amber Hurdle

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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Amber Hurdle

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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Amber Hurdle

"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

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Amber Hurdle

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

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Amber Hurdle

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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Amber Hurdle

"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

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Amber Hurdle

"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."

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Amber Hurdle

"The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought."

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Amber Hurdle

"We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant."

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

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

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