Author: Ted Nelson

Quotes

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

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

- Ted Nelson

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

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

- Ted Nelson

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

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

- Ted Nelson

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

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

- Ted Nelson

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.

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

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