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

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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

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

~ Ted Nelson

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

~ Ted Nelson

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

~ Ted Nelson