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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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Amber Hurdle

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

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Amber Hurdle

"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

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Amber Hurdle

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

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Amber Hurdle

"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."

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Amber Hurdle

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

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Amber Hurdle

"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."

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Amber Hurdle

"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

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Amber Hurdle

"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature."

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

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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."

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