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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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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

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"Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."

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Akshay Vasu

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Akshay Vasu

"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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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
"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."

Computer

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

Technology

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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."

Computer

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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."

Economy

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

School

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"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."

Computer

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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."

Computer

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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."

Money

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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."

Creativity

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