The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
Everything is deeply intertwingled. - Ted Nelson
Everything is deeply intertwingled.
- Ted Nelson
The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more. - Ted Nelson
The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not convenie… - Ted Nelson
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not convenie…
Making things easy is hard. - Ted Nelson
Making things easy is hard.
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry - Ted Nelson
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
The purpose of computers is human freedom. - Ted Nelson
The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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
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.
Any fool can use a computer. Many do. - Ted Nelson
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns. - Ted Nelson
History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.
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