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01Undated

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 / quote

02Undated

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

Ted Nelson / quote

03Undated

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

Ted Nelson / quote

04Undated

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

Ted Nelson / quote