In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. Ted Nelson computergraduatelighten Change image and share on social
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms. Ted Nelson armcatfootnote Change image and share on social
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 badcomputergood Change image and share on social
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go. Ted Nelson computerconnectionform share on social
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. Ted Nelson absolutelyarbitrarycomputer Change image and share on social
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything. Ted Nelson harryoperatepeople share on social
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 carrycomputerconvenience Change image and share on social
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever. Ted Nelson allowconstraintcut share on social
