Ted Nelson Quotes
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
Quotes to Explore
-
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
-
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
-
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
-
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
-
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
-
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
-
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
-
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
-
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
-
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
-
By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
-
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
-
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
-
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
-
A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
-
It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
-
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
-
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
-
The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.
-
Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
-
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
