"If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards."

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Source : "Computer Lib/Dream Machines". Book by Ted Nelson, 1974.

Ted Nelson

#Computer Quotes #Wave Quotes

“To fully enjoy life, to derive its greatest meaning and beauty, one needs to enter into it with not only the look of involvement and happiness, but the spirit of involvement as well.”
“My view is not just to find young talents, it's to support them too.”
“We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.”
“Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...”

Source : Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”
“When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.”
“He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.”
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedâ€”if all records told the same taleâ€”then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“Looking at suicideâ€”the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behindâ€”is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths”

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