- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
- Desktop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
- Project
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- Nov 07, 2020
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
- Nov 07, 2020
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
- Connections
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
- Database
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020