Author: 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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