5 Quotes By 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.
Ted Nelson on computers

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
Ted Nelson on computers

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

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

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