Ted Nelson

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

#bill gates #crew #database #decided #ellison

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

#about #bad #bad news #good #good news

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

— Ted Nelson

#desktop #everything #files #hierarchical #mean

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#could #felt #field #filmmaker #going

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#i #intensely #kinds #media #new

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

— Ted Nelson

#computer #course #graduate #graduate school #i

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#essentially #originally #project #returned #trademark

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#graduate #graduate school #happened #i #school

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? ↗

— Ted Nelson

#anything #cut #frustrated #having #i

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

#arms #because #cat #footnotes #free