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.
More Quotes from Ted Nelson:
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.Ted Nelson
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
Ted Nelson
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
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
Ted Nelson
I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.
Ted Nelson
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Ted Nelson
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