Ted Nelson Quotes
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
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I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life.
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
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Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
