Ted Nelson Quotes

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

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• Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Political
  • Authority
  • Rights

• I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Nature
  • You
  • Butterfly

• She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • She
  • Black
  • Wind

• Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Attitude

• My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Fighting
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Behavior
  • Rational
  • Self-interested

• I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

  

  T.I.
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Multi-Tenancy is a requirement for a SaaS vendor to be successful.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Requirement
  • Vendor
  • Multi-tenancy

• My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Film
  • Goal
  • Grows

• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Romance
  • Income
  • Fascinating

• The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

  

  W. A. H. Rushton
  • Goal
  • Personality
  • Impress

• Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Opinion
  • Source
  • Significance

• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

• What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Way
  • Control
  • Cool

• They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Humanity
  • Horizon

• They grieve until they find the individual alive, and if they don't, and the computer matches them up, then the grieving process moves on. It's reality now, and hope has diminished into facts

  

  John Callahan
  • Hope
  • Process
  • Facts

• The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Computer
  • Guess
  • Bikini

• As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Coice

• Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Computer