Ted Nelson - Quotes

Quotes

  • “Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong"
  • “A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.”
  • “We should not impose regularity where it does not exist.”
  • “I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.”

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