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Ted Nelson Quotes

We live in media, as fish live in water Picture Quote #1

Making things easy is hard Picture Quote #1

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds Picture Quote #1

Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think Picture Quote #1

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting Picture Quote #1

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages Picture Quote #1

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The purpose of computers is human freedom Picture Quote #1

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely Picture Quote #1

Any fool can use a computer. Many do Picture Quote #1

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards Picture Quote #1

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything Picture Quote #1

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media Picture Quote #1

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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application Picture Quote #1

The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world Picture Quote #1

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry Picture Quote #1

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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We live in media, as fish live in water (Ted Nelson Quotes) Making things easy is hard (Ted Nelson Quotes) Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds (Ted Nelson Quotes) Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think (Ted Nelson Quotes) Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting (Ted Nelson Quotes) How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead. (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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. (Ted Nelson Quotes) I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages. (Ted Nelson Quotes) The purpose of computers is human freedom (Ted Nelson Quotes) Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely (Ted Nelson Quotes) Any fool can use a computer. Many do (Ted Nelson Quotes) If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards (Ted Nelson Quotes) Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything (Ted Nelson Quotes) I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media (Ted Nelson Quotes) So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes) Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application (Ted Nelson Quotes) The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world (Ted Nelson Quotes) Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry (Ted Nelson Quotes) They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind (Ted Nelson Quotes) 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 (Ted Nelson Quotes)

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