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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. ”

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

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Ted Nelson Everything Mean Which

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

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Ted Nelson Information Numbers Saying

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

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Ted Nelson School Uncertainty

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

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Ted Nelson School Second Year