Ted Nelson quotes - page 2

Ted Nelson is an American author, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. Famous for coining the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia," his vision helped shape how we interact with digital information today. He advocates for new models of digital documents and remains influential in discussions about the structure of the internet. Here are 34 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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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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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