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

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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."

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"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer."

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"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."

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

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

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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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"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
"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, 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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"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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"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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