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One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved. ↗

— Bill Nelson

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We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it. ↗

— Ben Nelson

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When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote. ↗

— Ben Nelson

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You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. ↗

— Bob Nelson

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By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large. ↗

— Graham Nelson

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Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! ↗

— Graham Nelson

#anything #been #better #eventually #first

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#hard #i #leave #make #many

If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#best #games #i #longer #next

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700. ↗

— Graham Nelson

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The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#conceivable #curses #decent #getting #gone