6 Quotes & Sayings By Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson is an American computer scientist, author, and inventor. He is best known for his work on hypertext (a method of organizing information on the World Wide Web) and for his work in artificial intelligence. He was born in the United States. He died of cancer on February 23, 2005.

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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
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. 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
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. Ted Nelson
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. Ted Nelson