Ted Nelson Quotes
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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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
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Santa will be showing up with Rudolph the Red-Eyed Reindeer.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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it wont be long now It won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone
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Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.
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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.
