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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Ted Nelson
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
Ted Nelson
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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.
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.
Ted Nelson
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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.
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.
Ted Nelson
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Occupation:
American Author
Born:
June 17, 1937
Quotes count:
34
Wikipedia:
Ted Nelson
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