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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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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. ↗

— 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 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

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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#any #computer #his #home #individual

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#comes #good #hardware #heaven #software

Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore. ↗

— Donny Osmond

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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#block #cigarette #computer #did #down

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools. ↗

— Jon Porter

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But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection. ↗

— Jon Postel

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