Ted Nelson Computer Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

I never saw a computer during that course, I merely looked at the catalogues and the magazines and here was a picture showing a map on a screen.

I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

You can and must understand computers NOW.