Citas de Ted Nelson

• Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

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  Writing, Design, Program

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• Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

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  Mean, Paper, Body

  Proceedings of the 20th National Conference of the Association of Computing Machinery (1965)

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• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

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  Purpose, Computer, Humans

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• Lo bueno de los ordenadores es que hacen lo que uno les dice. La mala noticia es que hacen lo que tú les dices que hagan.

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  News, Computer, Classroom

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• Making things easy is hard.

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  Fácil, Difícil

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• Los aspectos técnicos importan mucho, pero la visión unificadora importa más.

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  Vision, Matter, Unifying

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• Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

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  Use, Given, Prisoner

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• Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

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  Technology, Use, Fool

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• History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

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  Looks, Patterns, Complicated

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• We live in media, as fish live in water.

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  Media, Water, Fishes

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• The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

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  Rights, Trying, World

  "Project Xanadu" description on Ted Nelson's Home Page, xanadu.com.au. November 17, 1998.

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• Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

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  People, Doe, Fool

  "The Curse Of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1995.

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• Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

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  People, Emptiness, Pretending

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• So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

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  Connections, Records, Paper

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• A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

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  Simple, Beginners, Emergencies

  "A different vision of the computer world". sydney.edu.au. April 4, 2011.

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• The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.

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  Views, Years, Defining

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• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

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  Wall, Spring, Ideas

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• Soy un chovinista del diseño. Creo que un buen diseño es mágico y que no se debe jugar con él a la ligera. La diferencia entre un gran diseño y uno pésimo está en el engranaje de los mil detalles que encajan o no, y en el espíritu del intelecto apasionado que los ha unido, o lo ha intentado. Por eso programar -o comprar software- basándose en "listas de características" es un esfuerzo condenado al fracaso y equivocado. Las características pueden estar tiradas, como en un cubo de basura, o cuidadosamente colocadas y entrelazadas en una elegante unificación, como en APL, o el lenguaje Forth, o el juego de ajedrez.

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  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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  Computer, Power Corrupts, Obsolete

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• If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

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  Computer, Wave, Ifs

  "Computer Lib/Dream Machines". Book by Ted Nelson, 1974.

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• Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

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  Libro, Corte, Personas

  "Computer Lib/Dream Machines". Book by Ted Nelson, 1974.

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• The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

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  Morning, Simple, Friendly

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

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  Numbers, Arbitrary, Information

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• Everything is deeply intertwingled.

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  "Computer Lib". Book by Ted Nelson, p. 42 / Dream Machines p.45, 1974.

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• Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

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  Pensar, Nueces, Gente

  "The Curse of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1995.

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