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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely

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

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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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What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what peoples problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information. – John Warnock

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Thats the new way – with computers, computers, computers. Thats the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. – Lennart Nilsson

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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think its true, its very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say… it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. – Mark Rylance

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Whos General Failure and whys he reading my disk? – Anon.

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