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Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson
American Author
Born: Jun 17, 1937
Arms Because Computer Could Graduation You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. Ted Nelson
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. Ted Nelson
Project Arms Returned Trademark Essentially Originally
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field. Ted Nelson
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. Ted Nelson
Saying Kind Arbitrary Absolutely Computers Deal Nonsense Were Any Information Numbers
But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded. Ted Nelson
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? Ted Nelson
You Having Write Always Anything Frustrated Cut Should Why Things
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. Ted Nelson
You Word Crew Database His Oracle Microsoft Decided Bill Bill Gates Larry Gates
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others. Ted Nelson
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. Ted Nelson
World Whatever World Wide Web Defines Web Browser Trivial Call Content Fits Handle Standards Now Wide Number

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