3 December 2020 Ted Nelson Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
3 December 2020 Ted Nelson In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
3 December 2020 Ted Nelson They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ted Nelson So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.