- @TheTedNelson: Apr 26, 2020
I have seen the future-- and it irks. -- Ted Nelson, 1996
- @TheTedNelson: Apr 14, 2020 Replying to @kevin2kelly @jasoncrawford @EdwardTufte
See "Xanadu Basics 1a" on Youtube.
- @TheTedNelson: Apr 14, 2020 Replying to @jasoncrawford @EdwardTufte
See "Xanadu Basics 1a" on Youtube.
- @TheTedNelson: Apr 13, 2020
The Rabies virus cleverly reproduces by causing rage and biting. A virus might also reproduce by making you want to kiss, or give away money.
- @TheTedNelson: Apr 2, 2020
Why do gods have gender?
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 30, 2020
Never have so many people understood so little about so much.-- James Burke
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 27, 2020
Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. - Lou Katz
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 24, 2020
Voice recognition is more artificial than intelligent. -- Christine Borgman
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 22, 2020
Ted predicts, 22 March: World economic crash from the lockdown will kill far more than letting the virus rip.
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 18, 2020
I am used to other people being wrong.
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 16, 2020
PANPANIC: turning a fast disease with a low death rate into world economic collapse.
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: Mar 7, 2020
Let’s play a game. I give you $1M today. You give me $0.01 today, $0.02 tomorrow, $0.04 the day after, etc. for 30 days. Without using a calculator, would you accept this deal?
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 8, 2020
It's not just a pandemic, it's a PANPANIC. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 6, 2020
Forcing ideas through a small aperture can give them any shape, like pasta. -- Ted Nelson, 1990
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 4, 2020
They say time is money, but you can't save it for later.
- @TheTedNelson: Mar 2, 2020
The more I learn, the older I get. -- Ted Nelson
- @TheTedNelson: Jan 10, 2020
What's the difference between a cult and a religion? A religion is a cult with downtown lawyers. -- Ted Nelson
- @TheTedNelson: Jan 4, 2020
The printing press decentralized the role of gatekeeper. -- Cullen Murphy
- @TheTedNelson: Jan 4, 2020
Significant scientific discoveries do two things at once: advance the narrow field of fact and extend the imaginative field of wonder. -- Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
- @TheTedNelson: Jan 1, 2020
I define a Wikipedia Romp as an extended trip through Wikipedia, clicking and typing in new queries. Most fun as a 2-person entertainment, with one party reading and the other requesting.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Dec 2019
China, which built 90,000 miles of roads in 2013, used more concrete between 2011 and 2013 than the United States used in the entire 20th century. -- Business Insider
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Dec 2019
"So many questions must we ask, whereof we dread the answer." -- The Missing Shakespeare.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Nov 2019
The soul is greater than the hum of its parts -- Ted Nelson
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Sep 2019
Rendering one frame of "Toy Story" required roughly the same amount of computation as had taken place in all the history of the world until about 1970. -- Steve Jasik
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Aug 2019
JUST FOUND: 1984 warning about coming network dangers, in one fierce sentence--youtube.com/watch?v=pdkQ4a…
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Aug 2019
Google has gone prudish-- a year ago, you could google "San Francisco prostitutes" and get names and addresses, now you get arrest articles, editorials and street shots.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Jul 2019
History is written by the victor's editor. -- James Risberg @jimmyris
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2019
Can't make Twitter accept a URL any more, sorry.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2019
Rivian wants to sell electric trucks that can operate in 3 feet of standing water.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/bus…
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2019
Rivian wants to sell electric trucks that can operate in 3 feet of standing water. Meet the Man Quietly Building the Tesla of Trucks, With Jeff Bezos Aboard - The New York Times
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jun 2019
Heard some noises in the night-- figured it was just the toys dancing.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Jun 2019
Translating the Book of John, it usually begins, "In the beginning was the word." But "the word" is a translation of the Greek "logos", which could perhaps be better translated as "system". In the beginning was System! Discussed on Melvyn Bragg show-- youtube.com/watch?v=pOnWGj…
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Jun 2019
Life is about constant replanning. "Planning is everything, a plan is nothing"-- Eisenhower
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Jun 2019
"Deferred maintenance"-- the time bomb of civilization. In which accountants conspire.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 May 2019
Who would enforce a ban on nuclear weapons? And with what?
- @TheTedNelson: 22 May 2019
WHY SOFTWARE KEEPS GETTING WORSE: it's easy to add stuff, but nobody controls the overview-- you need a director.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 May 2019
They used to disguise computers in many ways to avoid the iron fist of IBM. For instance, the SPIRAS-65, "A STORED PROGRAM CONTROLLER/PROCESSOR." archive.org/details/TNM_Sp…
- @TheTedNelson: 10 May 2019
angerziety edgy jitters. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 9 May 2019
Yes, Kevin Kelly of WIRED is the 'amiable dimwit' I thought was my friend, referred to in Jackal video--youtube.com/watch?v=-_-5cG…
- @TheTedNelson: 7 May 2019
Richard Stallman's great work was inspired by his indignation at the Xanadu project-- see archive.org/details/Stallm… (posted with Stallman's collaboration).
- @TheTedNelson: 6 May 2019
ALTERNATIVE SMARTPHONE!-- "Sailfish", based on Gnu/Linux, from Finland. The software replaces Android, has its own apps, and supposedly runs Android apps in safety sandboxes. You can't get the preloaded phone in USA, but you can install it yourself fromjolla.com/sailfishx/
- @TheTedNelson: 3 May 2019
I keep my weight down by drinking a quart of half and half a day. Why? The sugar industry wrote the report blaming cholesterol in 1965--nytimes.com/2016/09/13/wel…
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Apr 2019
Every exciting project becomes a chore. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Apr 2019
You live out in perpetuity what you have chosen. (Dante)
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Apr 2019
omnivolent Wanting everything. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Apr 2019
transcombobulate Convert to a new way of thinking; a form of ideoplasty. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Apr 2019
Hear it now! My 1966 talk at the Rand Corporation, "Hard and Fast Thoughts for a Softcopy World".archive.org/details/HardAn…
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Apr 2019
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Apr 2019
Now Hypercasting: My philosophy work
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Apr 2019
whamsical-- whimsical with a bang. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Apr 2019
REAL CUT AND PASTE! Nobody gets that it's now impossible. Okay, here's my whole 1961 philosophy manuscript, as messed up by flooding. archive.org/details/wtpast…
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Mar 2019
Never trust Apple to let you keep using something.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Mar 2019
Want to see REAL cut-and-paste? Start of my philosophy manuscript from 1961 (wrecked in a sewage-flooded basement)-- ia800203.us.archive.org/4/items/wt1961…
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Mar 2019
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Mar 2019
"Star Wars has never made a profit" tells you all you need to know about Hollywood accounting. -- StackExchange
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Mar 2019
What do you mean "Is that a word?" I just said it, didn't I? #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Mar 2019
truth decay-- loss of detailed knowledge and understanding. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Mar 2019
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Mar 2019
"Fix it later"-- famous last words.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Mar 2019
From all those great digital possibilities, how did we get into this locked-down universe?
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Mar 2019
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Mar 2019
About to start another hypercast.
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Mar 2019
Whatever you do is just a thrust into the mess. Each success then adds to the mess.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Mar 2019
Orgy Clubs of the 1970s-- a personal reminiscencepatreon.com/posts/25090197
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2019
We may move to a paid Hypercast, on Patreon, fairly soon.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2019
My Patreon account is patreon.com/thetednelson. Grateful for donations.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2019
Enjoyed the Hypercast#2 on Periscope. Thanks for participating, and thanks to @jimmyris for facilitating.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2019
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Feb 2019
Ted Nelson live! ONCE AGAIN I'll be streaming an experimental live Q&A on Friday, 1 pm California time. If you have a question for me, reply to this tweet.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Feb 2019
The reason that foreign powers don't take down our infrastructure is that they want us functional. Barely.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Feb 2019
"Computer Lib" reprints, excellent and shrink-wrapped, now being sold by Adora Cheung of Ycombinator--computerlibbook.com
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Feb 2019
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Feb 2019
Nelson's Law: COMPLICATIONS ARISE TO USE UP ALL RESOURCES. (This is a generalization of Parkinson's Law.)
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Feb 2019
Nelson's Law: COMPLICATIONS ARISE TO USE UP ALL RESOURCES.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Feb 2019
Ted Nelson live! I'll be streaming an experimental live Q&A on Friday, 1 pm California time. If you have a question for me, reply to this tweet-- we'll see if this is of interest.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Feb 2019
GREAT PIECE ON DARWIN'S SNEAKINESS-- Adam Gopnik, in the New Yorker, explains how Darwin pretended to be simple-minded, and snuck up on the reader with his vast conclusions.tinyurl.com/yxl8dhnf
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Feb 2019
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Feb 2019
So many intentions. So little time.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Feb 2019
Call me crazy, but I think the glass is both half empty AND half full.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Feb 2019
Disney had hoped that the film would bring classical music to people who, like himself, had previously "walked out on this kind of stuff". -- Wikipedia, "Fantasia"
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Jan 2019
Wells Fargo has the courage of its convictions.
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Jan 2019
What happened to "courtesy of the road"? It's no longer even a concept, like virginity.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Jan 2019
Women have better sex under socialism (New Yorker)--tinyurl.com/y79qzrbv
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Jan 2019
transmicturition trespissing. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jan 2019
backernailya VCs celebrating your capture. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Jan 2019
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. -- Leo Rosten
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Dec 2018
boguflection fake gesture of respect, false homage. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Dec 2018
At the Doug Demo 50th I proposed to call every December 9th "DougDay"-- a day for demos-- not knowing that #DougDay was already taken. Could December 9th be DougDemoDay?
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Dec 2018
re-link-wishment giving up somebody but wanting them back. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Dec 2018
cannibble human snack. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Dec 2018
The iron law of performative debate, which also happens to apply to dating: The person who cares most always loses. -- Laurie Penny
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Dec 2018
In 2011, the New York Times asked my predictions for the future. I GOT IT RIGHT! But they butchered the article. Here's the original. archive.org/details/Comput…
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Dec 2018
bagotrix bag-woman. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Dec 2018
In 1969, CBS Laboratories had a multimedia gizmo that they wanted to demonstrate for industrial training. I wrote a script and shot the slides, endeavoring to make it funny as well. archive.org/details/SantaS…
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Dec 2018
Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted Massimo
First image of earth from space, 1959.twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/…
Theodor Holm Nelson added,
0:52Massimo @Rainmaker1973In 1959 a capsule with a 16mm camera was launched aboard a Thor missile. Designed to record footage of the missile, the engineers realized the device could record images of the Earth too. So this the first video footage… - @TheTedNelson: 1 Dec 2018
Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted The Long Now Foundation
For Erik, @nerpulustwitter.com/longnow/status…
Theodor Holm Nelson added,
0:59The Long Now FoundationVerified account @longnowThe Prelinger Archives recently produced the highest quality version yet of the Miles Brothers’ iconic pre-earthquake footage of #SanFrancisco, “A Trip Down Market Street” (01906), showing detail that no audienc…Show this thread - @TheTedNelson: 30 Nov 2018
amuse-bush foreplay. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Nov 2018
adequeduct sufficient hole. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Nov 2018
LUSCIVIOUS. luscious and lascivious; trans-yummic. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Nov 2018
It is unwise to argue with your followers-- don't fight the band that heeds you.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Nov 2018
Alarming compliment I just got on Youtube-- "Why haven't we seen a next generation operating system since OS X? Oh, yeah-- because for whatever sick reason Ted Nelson isn't goddamned president right now." -- [name withheld]
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Nov 2018
Famous last words: "Now everything's going to be all right."
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Nov 2018
COMPUTER SECURITY! Superb interview-- the great Bruce Schneier interviewed by the great Harry Shearer--harryshearer.com/le-shows/novem…
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Nov 2018
There is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. -- Machiavelli
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Nov 2018
I am not a programmer, but a designer-director of software (like Doug Engelbart and Steve Jobs, but with far fewer resources). Every delivery is a negotiated reduction of a vision against resources, technical restrictions, and time.
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Nov 2018
Trickbot is a financial Trojan ... to target banks and other institutions. The malware continues to evolve and is currently equipped with injectors, obfuscation, data-stealing modules, and locking mechanisms. —zdnet
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Nov 2018
Media innovation, which I and others have attempted, is a dangerous path. Gutenberg went bankrupt. Stubblefield, inventor of broadcasting and the mobile phone, starved to death and was eaten by rats. - Geeks Bearing Gifts
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Nov 2018
For more than thirty years I have waited eagerly for Orson's fabled masterpiece, "The Other Side of the Wind", and now it has opened and I have seen it. I am sorry to report that it is lousy.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Oct 2018
What we strive for-- SHAPED CONSEQUENCES.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Oct 2018
@maxirater Please stop leaving your comments on my Youtube channel. You don't get it and you are a pain.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Oct 2018
Each initiative can only plow through the chaos of life, and the world, with a specific thrust; the rest remains a mess.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Oct 2018
It’s difficult being a human being living in exponential times. —Joseph Lubin
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Oct 2018
To learn Unix/Linux, perhaps it's easiest to go to the original, the 1972 "Unix Programmer's Manual" by Thompson and Ritchie. Which also tells us that "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." tinyurl.com/ybmlxszn
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 30 Sep 2018
Joshua Matettore Retweeted
The Architecture of the Medium shapes the signals transmitted through it. This is why Xanadu is important. twitter.com/PresentWitness…
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I go to Eventbrite.com and there is NO WAY TO TELL THEM HOW MUCH I HATE THEIR STUPID INTERFACE, with the ticking clock and not saying which required fields haven't been filled in. So I'm telling them here.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Sep 2018
If Steve Jobs had designed fire extinguishers, they would be light grey and hard to figure out.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Sep 2018
For air travel-- why doesn't somebody make a combintion headset, pillow and blindfold? That way we wouldn't have to fiddle with all those parts.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Sep 2018
snacreligious pertaining to supperstition. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Sep 2018
It's not that I speak in paragraphs. The paragraphs speak through me.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Sep 2018
Religion is organized superstition. —Paul Krassner
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Sep 2018
My life hath been the poem I would have writ. But I could not both live and live to utter it. — Thoreau (his journals are enormous.)
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Sep 2018
You cannot will money into existence, unless you are a Nation.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Sep 2018
There is an "official licensing site" for Mark Twain, even though everything he did is in the public domain. How can this be? cmgww.com/historic/twain…
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Sep 2018
retrophoria. How it used to feel. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Sep 2018
I've listened through all of "Moby Dick" aloud— tinyurl.com/ydhg575c — I say ignore the silly story of raging fated alpha males (Ahab and whale)— the greatness is in Melville's vast descriptive poetics, panoramic unfolding scenes, and cosmic understandings of history and life.
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Aug 2018
Why is school so horrible when every subject is interesting?
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Aug 2018
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. —Terry Pratchett
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Aug 2018
California firefighters drastically slowed by exceeding Verizon data limit.latimes.com/local/lanow/la…
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Aug 2018
The chambers of my soul are all in crookedness. —Melville, "Moby Dick"
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Aug 2018
Horrific account of private imprisonment and theft in USA-- to join the racket, you just have to take a Guardiansip course. -- New Yorkertinyurl.com/y8syom4k
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Aug 2018
I don't have a work ethic, I have a PROJECT COMPULSION —not a moral position but an artistic and ambitious need.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Aug 2018
God, if there is one, can see everything simultaneously and as a whole, but you and I are limited to particular views, a few at a time, which we then unite in our minds as a unified understanding-- if we can.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Aug 2018
Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted Andromeda Yelton
Great computer history museum in Bozeman, Montana. (Tweet chain.) .twitter.com/thatandromeda/…
Theodor Holm Nelson added,
Andromeda Yelton @ThatAndromedaI have an hour or two to kill in Bozeman so I found this hole in the wall computer history museum and...wow. This is not what I expected. +Show this thread - @TheTedNelson: 10 Aug 2018
Every day, computers are making people easier to use. -- DavidTemkin
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Aug 2018
Reduce the periphery. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Aug 2018
Bill Gates as Pygmalion: he built Microsoft in his own image, Melinda embraced his paradigm and starred in it; he married his own creation.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Aug 2018 Replying to @andy_matuschak
Meant to say: I have been trying to get this working on screens for decades. When they changed the meaning of "cut and paste" in 1984, the world lost a vital capability.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Aug 2018 Replying to @andy_matuschak
I have been trying to get this working on screens. When the changed the meaning of "cut and paste", the world lost a vital capability.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Jul 2018
What CAN be misunderstood, WILL be misunderstood.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Jul 2018
Snake at the door:gizmodo.com/womans-public-…
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jul 2018
Memo to self: I wish you'd reach agreement.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Jul 2018
Perhaps we're already at the apocalypse; we just don't recognize it, like the frog in boiling water. —Walter Shelburne
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jul 2018
Consulting jobs are all alike: the client presents a problem, you have to figure out the real problem, and figure out how to tell the client.
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Jul 2018
Satoshi Nakamoto is D.B. Cooper. Must be.
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 6 Jul 2018
Beautiful Decay by Paul Robertson. Reality crumbles, but we can still be happy. tinyurl.com/y8gkh7mppic.twitter.com/b7AZyOyros
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jul 2018
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. —Swift
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2018
Of course men can give milk. The bags of fat that women wear are social markers.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Jul 2018
Massachusetts has legalized pot, but it's scarce there. Jump on a plane, dealers! Just hope your plane isn't diverted to another state.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Jul 2018
The more stuff you keep, the less of it you will see again.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jun 2018
"Impregnable" has two meanings.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Jun 2018 Replying to @volt4ire
Wikipedia.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Jun 2018
Masterpiece cartoon of Today-- youtube.com/watch?v=VASywE…
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jun 2018
This is the only really bad thing I've heard about my lifetime hero.
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After paying Adriana Caselotti $970 to be Snow White, Disney blackballed her career to keep her voice from being used anywhere else. —W'p
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Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted jack
I suggest you look at my current work-- tinyurl.com/yaabgnxt -- TNtwitter.com/jack/status/10…
Theodor Holm Nelson added,
jackVerified account @jack Replying to @desantis @ev and 6 othersLiterary Machines - @TheTedNelson: 31 May 2018 Replying to @jack @desantis and
That was long ago. See current update--youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52…
- @TheTedNelson: 18 May 2018
Spent last Sunday with the Ethereum top brass, lounging and schmoozing-- WOW what a group.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 May 2018
Consciousness! It's easy to understand why creatures must be aware; but the surprise is the vividness inside this thing.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 May 2018
Husband and wife sing soprano duets in unknown language, but each song is elemental conversation between man and woman. tinyurl.com/ya4rp5tv
- @TheTedNelson: 6 May 2018
Who is most afraid of AI? WHITE MALE BILLIONAIRES— the threatened apex predator. —gal on NPR
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Apr 2018
There are no answers, only cross references. — Norbert Wiener
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Apr 2018
WIKIPEDIA HAS TURNED HORRIBLE OVERNIGHT, with ghastly pop-up pictures obscuring the text. Looking for a reader to hide these.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Apr 2018
Just figured out a new way to explain my main work-- VISIBLE CONNECTIONS.tinyurl.com/yaabgnxt
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Apr 2018
We're past the causes and into the consequences.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Apr 2018
Wherever there are ideas, there are variations that compete-- religion, software, academia, cooking, terminology. Of course yours are right.
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Mar 2018
Who's going to augment my reality after you're gone?
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Mar 2018
Too many things to do first. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Mar 2018
The question in software design: What is the godseye view? How can we see it all? How get an overview from which to zoom, select, combine?
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Mar 2018
My 1970 computer language-- LOLLIPOP-- was for specifying complicated keystroke interfaces. Still good. xanadu.com/lollipop.pdf
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Mar 2018
So many threads, so little weave.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Mar 2018
It’s like marrying a widow— being respectful of the dead husband, but come Saturday night... bam. —G. Del Toro, remaking "Frankenstein"
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Mar 2018
An account used to be handled by a person in an office that you could talk to. Now it's a horrible gateway on the Web, programmed by a jerk.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Mar 2018
God? There is no consciousness or intention behind the universe, and the universe does not care what people do. We project.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Mar 2018
Wells Fargo is fighting hard to improve their image-- I just had a check okayed by a manager in a cape with a ring in her nose. (NOT KIDDING.)
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Mar 2018
Wells Fargo is fighting hard to improve their image-- I just had a check okayed by a manager in a cape with a ring in her nose.
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Mar 2018
Grant me patience, Oh Lord, but hurry.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Feb 2018
Pages can refuse to open except in "the latest browser"-- I think this is criminal.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Feb 2018
Whenever a feature is called "smart", it means another damn algorithm to outwit.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Feb 2018
What is this Mars crap? Where are the interplanetary space colonies the L5 Society planned?
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Feb 2018
THERE IS TOO MUCH TO SAY AND IT GOES IN ALL DIRECTIONS. This is not just a slogan but my most fundamental belief.
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Feb 2018
Loss isn't an absence, it's a presence. -- Jackie Kay, Poet Laureate of Scotland.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Feb 2018
People keep expanding till it's too late.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jan 2018
Trying to do things on the little app screen is like being locked in a closet with goats.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jan 2018
My best early papers are now up for free-- check out "Computopia and Cybercrud", p.66. tinyurl.com/y9yx7qjp
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jan 2018
A loaded gun on the coffeetable will be used more often.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Dec 2017
Just because everyone ridicules you, doesn't mean you're great. — C.R. Saikley
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Dec 2017
Warnings by Orson Welles-- Great ringtone!archive.org/details/Orsons…
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Dec 2017
Under our clothes we are all naked.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Dec 2017
Cash out Bitcoin NEVER. Plan: sell 1 bitcoin for $100k in 2018, half a bitcoin for $200k in 2019, a quarter of a bitcoin for $400k in 2020, etc.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Dec 2017
Look around BEFORE you fart. #LifeHeuristics
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Dec 2017
irrelephant the elephant in the room that doesn't matter. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Dec 2017
@AjitPaiFCC - All 21 of us told you tomorrow's #NetNeutrality
order was technically wrong, pioneersfornetneutrality.tumblr.com but we haven't heard back from you! #pioneers4nn #StopTheVote - @TheTedNelson: 12 Dec 2017
The oneness on which visions of reality are imposed. — Jim Raschick
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Dec 2017
Letter from Internet Pioneers to the Senate just went out, I signed it. pioneersfornetneutrality.tumblr.com
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Dec 2017
keeposis souvenireal disease. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Dec 2017
This is the most possible of all possible worlds.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Dec 2017
irreloquent. Eloquent but irrelevant. #NelsonWords
Translated from Catalan by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 1 Dec 2017
Apple will audit the development process now, sez Reuters. mono.コムパソコン/210614
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Dec 2017
What succeeds gets more complicated.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Nov 2017
Does nobody get it? "Guest" can seize your machine!zdnet.com/article/stupid…
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Nov 2017
Latest Mac update allows Guest to sign in as Root! YEE HAW!!! tinyurl.com/y7mq2j4n
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Nov 2017
The Microsoft motto-- "embrace and extend"-- pretty naughty.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2017
Forgot to mention that I wrote it Re: First Rock Musical Remembered, tinyurl.com/ycgop5lx & archive.org/details/TheFir…
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2017
Best numbers of First Rock Musical are actually not the rockiest-- 6, 12, 15, 11 at archive.org/details/TheFir…
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2017
First Rock Musical: PLAY IT NOW at archive.org/details/TheFir… Rockiest are 5, 4, 19 and 1.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2017
PROGRAM/POSTER of First Rock Musical, "Anything & Everything"-- hyperland.com/A&E/A&Eprogram…
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2017
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION: songs of First Rock Musical are listed attinyurl.com/ybllfzhw
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2017
Today is the 60th anniversary of the First Rock Musical, "Anything & Everything". Story is at tinyurl.com/ycgop5lx
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Nov 2017
The Four Horsemen of Respectability— Shallowness, Conventionality, Pomposity and Smugness.
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 20 Nov 2017
"What I thought would be called Xanadu is called the World Wide Web, but has the same penetration" @TheTedNelson 1999
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Nov 2017
On the Internet apparently nobody knows you’re a demagogue. — Elizabeth Kolbert, NYr
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Nov 2017
Strangest table I've ever seen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time…
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Nov 2017
HEY! Maybe we could fix global warming with NUCLEAR WINTER!
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Nov 2017
"a reader... willing to suspend incomprehension will be able to read this document without consulting other sources." tinyurl.com/y7q8af6v
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Nov 2017
Picture of my rotary desk: tinyurl.com/ybmc293c
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Nov 2017
I just got patent #9,808,082 on a circular desk you sit inside and rotate. tinyurl.com/yb3agsdm
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Nov 2017
When people say "technology" these days, they generally mean IMPOSED ENVIRONMENTS.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Oct 2017
"Twelve Against The Gods" was my favorite book before Elon Musk said it was HIS favorite, driving the price way up. tinyurl.com/y8ogohqs
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Oct 2017
The more words you know, the more you can think about.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Oct 2017
Rather cool piece I wrote on electronic mail when the Post Office still wanted to take it over— tinyurl.com/ya9u76e3
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Oct 2017
General Enfilade Theory-- published at last! xanadu.com/EnfTheory-D10
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Oct 2017
Success takes few forms; failure, many.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Oct 2017
TRANSCOPYRIGHT-- the overlooked permission system for remix.tinyurl.com/yb27e4gp
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Oct 2017
The fundamental directive of today's on-line world: SUBMIT.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Oct 2017
Adam Gopnik's obit for Hugh Hefner gives him backhanded credit for broadening culture and sexually liberating women.tinyurl.com/ybcmatyq
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Sep 2017
"Not unlike" is not unlike "not unlike".tinyurl.com/yaxynt97
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Sep 2017
It is now politically dangerous to suggest that there is any difference between men and women whatsoever.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Sep 2017
THE WORLD'S CHOICES ARE OVER. Now we're in the consequences.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Sep 2017
After you finish a book, you’re dead. But all they see is the irresponsibility after the terrible responsibility of writing. — Hemingway
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Sep 2017
Walrus auto-fellatio gleefully presented on TV. youtube.com/watch?v=wcG6Bz…
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Sep 2017
Acquisition is random and serial; getting rid of stuff takes much longer because you have to cross-consider and optimize. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Sep 2017
The bother of filing increases as the square of the number of things kept. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Sep 2017
What does "reality check" mean lately?
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Sep 2017
We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. —Mike Rowe
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Sep 2017
For our suicide pact, let's write separate notes. And you go first.
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Sep 2017
What I don't know could fill a book. — Colyer Dupont
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Sep 2017
HERE I STAND: a summary of my life and ideals and work: what I tried to do and what actually happened.tinyurl.com/yax2862j
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 8 Jul 2017
The things that count don't need to be counted.
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Aug 2017
Male velcro is rough and grabby, female velcro is soft and accepting. (Hey, I'm just reporting.)
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Aug 2017
Comcastrated — Jason Perlow. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Aug 2017
The computer experience-- interacting with many many damn things that almost work.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Aug 2017
My video, "Understanding the Bible"-- surprising answers from James Moffatt.tinyurl.com/yaod6dqj
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Aug 2017
"Cross-chain atomic swaps can occur off-chain instantly with heterogeneous blockchain consensus rules." Good, I say.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Aug 2017
Rocky Horror=Sunset Blvd! Flat-tire passersby imprisoned in strange mansion, narcissist's sexual vortex (& strange servants); ends in death.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Aug 2017
Robert's Rules of Order are designed to quell dissent, not to find the best plan. We need a new set.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Aug 2017
JUST FOUND: here's my January 1961 sketch for word-processing parlor I wanted to open in Harvard Square. tinyurl.com/ydb7wgjt
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Aug 2017
Hilarious but plausible phony company startup pages— tiffzhang.com/startup/
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jul 2017
The passage of time allows older people to remember who they were as they would like to have been. —Michael Lewis
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jul 2017
A new subject is like a dark hole with a rope going down— you don't know how deep it is or long the rope is. —@RogerWagner
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Jul 2017
The ramifications of the obvious are not always obvious.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Jul 2017
To paraphrase Wilson Mizner: Be careful what you acquire on the way up, because you'll have to get rid of it all on the way down.
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Jul 2017
Every day there's more track to keep.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Jul 2017
Tuesday at 6pm — party for my 80th birthday at the Internet Archive.tinyurl.com/yb3ngpgy
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Jul 2017
How software is made: first oversimplify the problem, then add unnecessary complications. -- TN at PC76
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Jun 2017
Typo in NYr!-- "A little more than eight years ago, the election of the first American-American President coincided with... racial unrest."
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Jun 2017
New York Times does unprecedented video analysis of protester beatings in D.C. by Turkish security. tinyurl.com/ycj23vvt
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jun 2017
knodule: unit of knowledge. -- Erik Nelson #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Jun 2017
DOOMED: the tekkie hope for "ontologies" that agree on terms, ideas and their definitions. Paradigm differences are fractal, at every level.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Jun 2017
The royal we are going upstairs.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Jun 2017
There is no philosophy of computers! Computers impersonate the constructs we put on them, so our concern is the philosophy of CONSTRUCTS.
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jun 2017
My PhD thesis, "Philosophy of Hypertext", is now at Amazon-- but cheaper at Lulu. tinyurl.com/j42fzch
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jun 2017
My PhD thesis, "Philosophy of Hypertext", is now available at Amazon.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jun 2017
Sugar drinks are the cause of the obesity epidemic, cholesterol is innocent. Conspiracy now documented by NYTimes— tinyurl.com/y9lf6kow
- @TheTedNelson: 31 May 2017
History flow diagram, invented at IBM in 2003, by me in 1980. Versions change left to right. xanadu.com/HistoryFlowCom…
- @TheTedNelson: 17 May 2017
How pleasantly we drift along! But the roar of the falls grows louder.
- @TheTedNelson: 9 May 2017
No plan survives delegation. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 9 May 2017
No plan survives delegation.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Apr 2017
I am, therefore I think.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Apr 2017
We are not attempting to change anything; we are trying to establish what it is we don't want to change. -- Rep. Broyhill, 1962 (NYT)
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Apr 2017
No practical biologist [would theorize about] three or more sexes; yet ... why sexes are, in fact, always two? (R.A.Fisher, 1930)
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Apr 2017
Video showing my main self-publications of the last sixty years, some academic and some not.youtube.com/watch?v=9zrV4K…
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Apr 2017
Instead of selecting passengers to bloodily drag off a plane, just keep raising the bonus until someone agrees to get off. Hel-LO !!!
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Apr 2017
At last you can try the word processor I designed in 1970! Best in Chrome. tinyurl.com/m2q5pr4
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Apr 2017
History is a set of lies agreed upon. -- Napoleon; and before him Voltaire; and before him, Fontenelle.
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 22 Feb 2017
finite : infinite : transfinite :: ponderable : imponderable : transponderable
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Mar 2017
Interesting to hear Woody Guthrie's song against Donald Trump's father. youtube.com/watch?v=jANuVK…
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Mar 2017
Apple's messages have gotten so faint as to be completely unreadable. hyperland.com/AppleUnreadabl…
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Mar 2017
I miss movie-making. Here's a treatment of my filmscript, MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN. tinyurl.com/h9pvveg
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Mar 2017
George Orwell's poem, "The Money God"-- did you know he wrote poetry?youtu.be/n3G6DeEbc2U
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Mar 2017
TN/ Every interface is a state machine-- actually "Mealy machine"; each input triggers a specific output. Brewster/ Are WE Mealy machines?
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Mar 2017
I was attracted by the principle, and then I became entangled in the detail. -- Betsy Davids
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2017
We Geminis don't believe in astrology.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Feb 2017
Life is a kaleidoscope-- stuff appears, gets our attention, gets variously mirrored and cross-referenced, then disappears, all vividly.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Feb 2017
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Feb 2017
But Ted, we've GOT to have schools! How else are we going to keep them out of the churches? - Marvin Minksy, ca. 1980
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Feb 2017
I do not like being called a geek. I consider myself a Systems Humanist, like my boyhood heroe Buckminster Fuller and Leonardo daVinci.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Feb 2017
My PhD thesis, "Philosophy of Hypertext", is finally available and published. (340 pages). tinyurl.com/j42fzch
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 19 Jan 2017
Sometimes I can't even connect one dot.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Feb 2017
For Every Complex Problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - Mencken #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Feb 2017
My new book, written 50 years ago, predicts what future media will be like-- in 1972. tinyurl.com/jh75ssf
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Feb 2017
You mean these sports teams are BUSINESSES, that prey on the loyalty of the inhabitants of their towns? -- TN, age 10
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Jan 2017
Carbon dioxide is an acid, so sodas rot your teeth. Somebody should make soda fizzed with NEON-- no tooth decay and EXPENSIVE, hint hint.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Jan 2017
Physics is like sex-- sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -- Richard Feynman #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Jan 2017
Physics is like sex-- sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -- Richard Feynman
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Jan 2017
Expansion is fun, contraction is unpleasant. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Jan 2017
On the big screen, in "Lo and Behold", Werner Herzog says I'm the only sane person in the computer world.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx6li…
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Dec 2016
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -- Thoreau
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Dec 2016
"How many husbands have I had? You mean, beside my own?" -- the late ZsaZsa
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Dec 2016
Why aren't children born toilet-trained? There must be some genetic advantage to cultural variation in the process, as with language.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Dec 2016
To deal with venture capitalists is to ride the scorpion. It's a form of date rape, an extorted quickie in pretense of common interest.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Oct 2016
At last we know why Gabriel's horn, at the End of Days, has been called THE TRUMP OF DOOM. All this time it was a prediction.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Sep 2016
If this is the pre-apocalyptic world, who more appropriate to open the curtains to collapse than Donald Trump?
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Sep 2016
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. - John Ray
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Sep 2016
Old Soviet saying: Only The Future Is Certain, The Past Is Always Changing.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Sep 2016
Connected documents working now, in end-to-end lean Xanadu® system. Publish your xanadocs! Some assembly required. tinyurl.com/z9c53yr
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Sep 2016
Mozilla has abandoned its telephone OS, leaving us only the two prisons of Apple and Android.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Aug 2016
When a Bitcoin company is broken into, the press blames Bitcoin. But if a bank is broken into, is there something wrong with dollars?
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Aug 2016
England has a Record Fish Committee! anglingtrust.net/page.asp?secti…
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Jul 2016
Segway is now a Chinese company, but evidently there is internal conflict with its electric unicycle division.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Jul 2016
Crazy Norwegians-- micro-Pac-Man atyoutu.be/GvZm9EXqrdU
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Jul 2016
Everything gets summarized, misunderstood and misrepresented. The result is History.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2016
Verizon tells me: "Welcome back, Set Your Greeting Name " I'll stick with that.
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Jun 2016
"We are all in the same gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde. Scientific proof at tinyurl.com/hnm9nzj
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Jun 2016
Life is about the management of sorrow, desire and resources.
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jun 2016
Foxconn has 1.3 million employees. Gosh.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Jun 2016
When little, Helen Lawrenson heard that her grandmother used to sit on Lincoln's lap, and wondered why he wanted an old lady there.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 May 2016
Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. -- Plato?
- @TheTedNelson: 21 May 2016
Ernest Gowers on writing: Be short, be simple, be human.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 May 2016
Every relationship fails until one doesn't. -- Dan Savage
- @TheTedNelson: 13 May 2016
The World Wide Web was incontrovertibly my idea. I'm puzzled and annoyed that this is not generally known, nor my fuller design understood.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 May 2016
A guy just wrote and asked me if I had always thought links should be blue. I thought he was an idiot. Maybe not. tinyurl.com/zewcqzb
- @TheTedNelson: 7 May 2016
Plans are nothing. Planning is everything. -- Dwight Eisenhower #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 1 May 2016
The number of possible misunderstandings between intelligent people is infinite. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Apr 2016
Success depends on the moral hold you can establish upon the people you are working with. -- Tommy Macpherson of the OSS #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Apr 2016
“We must prepare for unforeseen situations beyond the scope of expectation and imagination.” -- Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Apr 2016
Dildonics, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence are alike-- their promoters conjure up images of unlimited perfection.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Apr 2016 Replying to @roens
@roens By a hate-filled fascist twerp. See my 20th-anniversary reply at hyperland.com/WiredAnswers.h…
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Apr 2016
Sometimes a leap of faith is your only means of transportation. -- anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Mar 2016
Ray Kurzweil recently predicted that Marvin Minsky will be revived in 2045. Brewster Kahle: 'At least to pass the Turing test.'
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Mar 2016
"Adaptive Segmentation Eliminates the Attack Surface." -- bewildering poster seen in San Francisco, March 2016
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Mar 2016
When a great intellect opens a new domain of knowledge ... the discoverer is sometimes elbowed out of his own jurisdiction. -- NYr, 1933
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 6 Nov 2015
Thinking about the title and layout of @TheTedNelson's _computer lib / sǝuᴉɥɔɐɯ ɯɐǝɹp_. (sorry, had @ tednelson mistakenly.)
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Mar 2016
Stephen Wolfram is the Richard Branson of knowledge.
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Mar 2016
I'm not needy, I'm wanty. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Mar 2016
Hell: a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement and where everyone has a grievance. -- C.S.Lewis
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Mar 2016
Our slogan at Xanadu is WYSIWYNC-- What You See Is What You Never Could. And any visualization, however unprintable, is legitimate.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Mar 2016
The slogan WYSIWYG is propaganda for the idea that the computer is a paper simulator (and limited, indeed, to enacting one column of text).
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Mar 2016
WANT A PIANO? Seek offer for superb 1931 Knabe player piano, perfect woodwork & electric mechanism, FOB NJ. Likevimeo.com/51646769
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Mar 2016
If Apple loses on Iphone encryption, the only alternative is Phil Zimmermann's Blackphone-- he who gave us PGP, inspired by COMPUTER LIB!
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2016
Surprised to hear myself tirelessly explain computer media to hostile 1979 interviewer. tinyurl.com/hm96m7q (Thanks, whoever sent it.)
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Feb 2016
I don't want to DISABLE caps lock, I use it ALL THE TIME! I just hate HAVING TO RETYPE when I incorrectly think it's OFF (or on).
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Feb 2016
I have only one flaw. The trouble is, it has so many aspects. tinyurl.com/joqknt8
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Feb 2016
What is paper but a prison-- four walls, right? What is a parenthesis but an idea trying to escape?tinyurl.com/jotbcou
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Feb 2016
Can anyone find me a keyboard, or an app, that will buzz or squeal CONTINUOUSLY as long as caps lock is on?
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Feb 2016
Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted Greg Lloyd
Since I was 13, I have considered myself a Nexialist. Here's another: nexialism.infotwitter.com/roundtrip/stat…
Theodor Holm Nelson added,
Greg Lloyd @roundtrip"People ask me why I carry a stapler..." @TheTedNelson quoted by @manjusrii, Memory Machines books.google.com/books?id=N1qWB… pic.twitter.com/bX1AZkKHTg - @TheTedNelson: 22 Feb 2016 Replying to @DameWendyDBE
Nope, it was earlier-- the Web was CREATED because of two mistakes I made. @DameWendyDBE @MadaanAastha @unisouthampton
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 22 Feb 2016
.@JoelKuiper My light-bulb moment; Paper User Interfaces is credit to @TheTedNelson . #WebScience is mostly PUI not #LinkedResearch yet
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Feb 2016
My 20th-anniversary reply to the scurrilous Wired attack-- friendship monstrously betrayed. hyperland.com/WiredAnswers.h…
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Feb 2016
I must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on. -- Samuel Beckett
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Feb 2016
BIG SECRET-- to go public in the USA involves VCs and millions, whereas in England it costs £50,000 max (and Americans can buy stock).
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Feb 2016
When Marco Rubio speaks, young women swoon, old women faint, and toilets flush themselves. -- Dan Gelber
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Feb 2016
This is the most possible of all possible worlds.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Feb 2016
Best summary of my life's work so far-- yesterday's lec at U.Southampton.soundcloud.com/tim-oriordan/t…
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Feb 2016
Coincidence is just a word for when you cannot see the bigger plan. -- "Second Best Marigold Hotel"
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Feb 2016
Venture capital is a blood sport.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Feb 2016
Programmers are rogue magicians, each with intents and biases he may or may not reveal.
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Jan 2016
Art is art. Everything else is everything else. -- Ad Reinhardt
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Jan 2016
My favorite drug warning comes with my sleeping pills. It says WARNING: MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS.
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 12 Nov 2015
"Many apps... already use [schema.org] vocabularies to power rich, extensible experiences." and we all want some of those.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jan 2016
Sex is a strange world parallel to everyday life. And vice versa.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jan 2016
Imagination is a contagious disease. -- Whitehead
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jan 2016
Everyone who's said the world would end on a certain date has been wrong so far, so I'm not betting.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Dec 2015
Today's deluded youth call themselves the "Founder generation"-- they imagine they're pioneering in social media. tinyurl.com/j7rploa
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Dec 2015
The compelling nature of the computer itself ... will draw you into an obsessive embrace [as] the world comes to you in your home. - Ballard
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Dec 2015
Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted Jakob
Thanks!twitter.com/nichtich/statu…
Theodor Holm Nelson added,
Jakob @nichtich Replying to @TheTedNelson@TheTedNelson It's on page 2/15 of the 1981 edition. If we only could link to it and show the flow of the diagram from 1980 to 1993! - @TheTedNelson: 14 Dec 2015
Most initiatives are doomed. Yet we always try. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Dec 2015
The federal government is a giant insurance company with an army. -- Paul Krugman
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Dec 2015
A religion is a cult with downtown lawyers. (Cf. the truism in linguistics, "a language is a dialect with an army.")
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Dec 2015
There is a right way to do everything, but rarely time for it. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Dec 2015
"What might cause someone to erroneously rate pseudoprofound bullshit as profound?" -- journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm1…
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Dec 2015
Customs Guy/ Are you bringing anything in? TN, returning from Mexico, 1980s/ I hope not. Customs Guy/ Go ahead.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Dec 2015
Any involvement can become a quagmire. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Nov 2015
Fox urine for sale at Amazon-- DON'T RUN OUT! (Not approved for cooking.) tinyurl.com/o3rzoqv
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Nov 2015
History Flow diagram in Literary Machines 1987-- (I believe it was originally in the 1980 edition, not at hand.) tinyurl.com/pwvcf7v
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Nov 2015
Knowing what you can get away with is a principal requirement in life. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Nov 2015
Getting rid of a body in the blender would take too long.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Nov 2015
Four-year-old boy escaped abusive family, became leader of a dog pack until recaptured. -- Wikipedia, "Ivan Mishukov"
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Nov 2015
"Man of the world"-- someone who's been to a whorehouse. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Nov 2015
Terrorists don’t think like army generals; they think like theatre producers. -- Yuval Noah Harari, in The Guardian
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2015
I do not consider myself a "patient." I am a consumer of medicine.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Nov 2015
Hamlet -- "a grief-stricken rich kid from a messed-up family." -- Michelle Nijhuis, New Yorker
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Nov 2015
It is better to be pissed off than to be pissed on. -- Tony Pool
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Nov 2015
Out of sight is half lost. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Nov 2015
Coming soon: the APPLE NOSE RING! To yank you around faster and better. Requires some piercing.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Nov 2015
Toronto is kind of like Seattle, but with Canadians.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Nov 2015
I love the freedoms we used to have. -- George Carlin
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Nov 2015
Ask someone to draw a "petard". They generally draw a boat-hook. The word actually means an explosion.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Nov 2015
futilitarian fair but not useful. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Nov 2015
same-old-timeously concurrent. --Erik Nelson #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Nov 2015
The ancients had ancients. Think about it.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Nov 2015
History is gossip, but the trick is determining which gossip is history. -- Gore Vidal
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Nov 2015
When you pawn something, you hope you'll have the money to get your stuff back out. Today's pawnshop is called mini storage.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Nov 2015
tantanibbulation tantalizing nibbles. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Oct 2015
In America, you're famous for your latest work; in Europe, for your greatest work. -- Orson Welles
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Oct 2015
connectome-- map of neural connections (by analogy with "genome", map of genes)-- Sporns and Hagmann. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Oct 2015
Geologists now admit earth's center spins. I say it's plasma, meaning the earth may explode.tinyurl.com/pek4vjo
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Oct 2015
In organization politics, your enemy is the other department. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Oct 2015
Meatpacking removes the inconvenient parts of the pig. Including its life.
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Oct 2015
Nothing ages as fast as the future. -- Stanislaw Lem
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Oct 2015
According to my great-grandfather, "catsup" was coined to sound like an elegant word of which "ketchup" was a mispronuciation. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Oct 2015
It gets easier? They say that about everything. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Oct 2015 Replying to @viveka
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Oct 2015
Pitch: MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN! Mary Shelley finds herself in 1931 Hollywood as her movie opens. GAG: execs can't find her contract, pay big.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Oct 2015
Elegant lady: Oh shit, I just stepped in some icky poo.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Oct 2015
So many lives I don't have time for.
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Oct 2015
snarge what they call the goo after a bird goes into an airplane engine. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Oct 2015
Yes, it's adequate, but is it SUFFICIENTLY adequate?
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Oct 2015
Passive-aggressive programmers require you to put in data in exactly one format. Good guys convert your format to theirs with a regexp.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Oct 2015
If your mind is too far open, your brains will fall out. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Oct 2015
The phrase 'most evolved' is from a 19th-century misunderstanding of Darwin-- that evolution is toward some higher state.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Oct 2015
If a man alone in the woods speaks, and his wife cannot hear him, is he still wrong? -- a physicist's analysis at tinyurl.com/pphmfna
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Sep 2015
If a man alone in the woods speaks, and his wife cannot hear him, is he still wrong? -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Sep 2015
Duke U. has released draft 1.0 of a multi-institution "Tree of Life"-- today.duke.edu/2015/09/treeof… Includes 2.3 million species.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Sep 2015
adequeduct sufficient hole. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Sep 2015
It is the worst kind of design. It makes you think it's your fault. -- Lauren Sarno
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Sep 2015
"Do you want to own a portable DVR to bring more convenience, safety and fun to your daily life?" -- Amazon Convenience? Safety??
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Sep 2015
In physics, a "field" is a sneaky mathematical way of expressing effects at a distance.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Sep 2015
Steve Jobs truly knows the heart and mind of the user. Bill Gates at least knows what a user is. The Linux people haven't a clue. (TN,90s)
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Sep 2015
Clarke's dictum, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic,' has led many AI hustlers to push magic-looking crap at the laity.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Sep 2015
To take new initiatives is exciting. To cut back is depressing. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Sep 2015
See Apple go downhill-- deprecated OS funx, Appifying the Mac, now the stupid Watch. (Not even a camera!)
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Sep 2015
Steve Jobs' faintness aesthetic has dimmed everything. Googlemaps is now impossible to read.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Sep 2015
Most technology eventually enters the trough of disillusionment before long. -- Ted Bahr, InterDrone
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Sep 2015
Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one ... Now keep going. -- John McPhee
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Sep 2015
Our grand digital future of 1960 did not imagine account hell, file curation hell, forced upgrade hell, or a sassy ignorant digital rabble.
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Sep 2015
I don't know how to look it up because I don't know what to call it.
- Theodor Holm Nelson Retweeted @TheTedNelson: 26 May 2015
GRASPING AT STRAWS WORKSHOP. Time-honored, organic way to use the non-rational mind to solve problems and manage stress. Join us!
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Sep 2015
Kermit has left Miss Piggy. Perhaps sensible, but sad.tinyurl.com/p47kqq5
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Sep 2015
I haven't lost my marbles. I've only lost my bearings. -- Erik Nelson
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Sep 2015
Cans of worms can sometimes at least be consolidated. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Sep 2015
cromule appropriate or official object or unit. (From "cromulent.") #NelsonWords
Translated from Romanian by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 4 Sep 2015
A dog is a person without the frontal lobes.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Sep 2015
Imitation of paper is the sincerest form of flattening. -- Erik Nelson
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Sep 2015
I would rather be thin than eat wonderful food. That's basically the choice.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Aug 2015
If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. -- Satoshi Nakamoto
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Aug 2015
There's so much not to know!
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Aug 2015
People keep writing me to say their ideas are like mine-- well, ALL ideas are like mine, some way or other.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Aug 2015
Life is such a privilege. Think of all the atoms that don't get to be people.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Aug 2015
I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't this. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Aug 2015
I'm not a dudette! I am a woman of mature years. I am a Dudesse. -- Lauren Sarno #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Aug 2015
I am not the L. Ted Nelson who writes books for math teachers. Don't want to steal his credit.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Aug 2015 Replying to @worrydream
@worrydream @holden Doug told me they weren't, but I did not check otherwise. Thanks. This needs followup.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Aug 2015 Replying to @erardovega
@erardovega Wish I could claim credit, but it's another Ted Nelson-- seems to say "L.Ted Nelson".
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Aug 2015
We know the answer. But what is the question?
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Aug 2015
TN, 1980s/ Paradigm stereo, paradigm warp? Tom Kuhn/ Do what you like with the word, I've run it into the ground already. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Aug 2015
The Free Range Intellectual forages outside the chicken-wire of academic departments.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Aug 2015
Apple's principal product is obsolescence.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Aug 2015
Americlysm the coming big crash people talk about. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Aug 2015
Creative control is not a baton that is passed, but a shifting field of temporary advantages that must be strategized. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Aug 2015
cromulent legitimate, proper, official. -- The Simpsons #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Aug 2015
"Not unlike" is not unlike "not unlike". -- Silicon Valley Story
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Aug 2015
sopomorphic shaped like sleep. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Aug 2015
It's hard to think new thoughts in old words. -- TN, 1970s
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Aug 2015
"Responsibility" is often an accusatory word. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Aug 2015
Economics is about looking for mathematical equilbria and giving them the same names as real problems.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Aug 2015
TN/ Did you know that spermatozoa have electric motors? Gal/ I've suspected it. I've heard them humming.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Aug 2015
Trying to explain it is an exercise in futility, but it's the only exercise I get. --Larry Moyer
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Aug 2015
Raiment is what is worn when repasts are eaten and drinks are quaffed.
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Aug 2015
Yes, I am a control freak, but I prefer the term "Artist".
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Aug 2015
Linux is only free if your time is worthless. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Aug 2015
You don't actually dream. You just THINK you dream.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Aug 2015
The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Aug 2015
dangertunity opportunity fraught with risk. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Aug 2015
There are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Aug 2015
Don't try two new things at the same time. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Aug 2015
Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Aug 2015
Wine is like Art-- you have to trust the experts to tell you what's the good stuff, so you can show off.
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Jul 2015
biglet smallish large object. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Jul 2015
Additional layers of management have to justify themselves with confusing slogans. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jul 2015
Where did the universe come from?
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jul 2015
Social media is an interconnected vortex of solitudes. -- Werner Herzog (ad lib to TN, 15.09.30)
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Jul 2015
Writing is the casting of a line over the edge of time. -- Jill Lepore, New Yorker
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Jul 2015
utmosphere ultidimensional space, with both discrete and continuous dimensions. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jul 2015
Faint sans serif type in bedsheets of whitespace, sliding panels, bouncing boxes-- this is not my idea of hypertext.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jul 2015
When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Jul 2015
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Jul 2015
The best writing in Wikipedia is usually about 2/3 of the way through, since random additions accrete at the beginning and end.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Jul 2015
hypnoglyph object you keep stroking, can't let go of. -- John Ciardi #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Jul 2015
The latest is always the worst-- software, cars, American culture, equipment, governments, state of the planet.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Jul 2015
Every initiative has consequences, sometimes unwanted, sometimes entangling. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Jul 2015
Children are expected to know so little, mainly based on adult stereotypes of different subjects.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jul 2015
Philosopher: We want the greatest good for the greatest number. Mathematician: There is no greatest number.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jul 2015
In my family, it was DESpicable to say desPICable and exQUISite, and it was EXquisite to say DESpicable and EXquisite.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jul 2015 Replying to @PopCultureFreak
@PopCultureFreak Newly-printed copies are available, hyperland.com/LibPage
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jul 2015
cavortex funnel of fun. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Jul 2015
The dual illusions-- enough time, enough money. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Jul 2015
History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Jul 2015
impunge stick in. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Jul 2015
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Jul 2015
Denial is the longest river in the world. -- TN, 1970s
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Jul 2015
hankerchief He who hankers most; not to be confused with 'handkerchief'. #NelsonWords_
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Jul 2015
More on petroleum (much more!)-- Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary, glossary.oilfield.slb.com
Translated from German by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 15 Jul 2015
theodorize to make to smell godly. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jul 2015
I pretend to be what I really am.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jul 2015
To specialize is to brush one tooth. -- Tom Robbins
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Jul 2015 Replying to @viveka
@viveka And if there are no boxes? (See my piece, "What Box?" in the Festschrift.)
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Jul 2015
To appear knowledgeable, choose any subject, study its stereotypes, learn 5 or 10 interesting facts that few know. Go on to next subject.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Jul 2015
immortuary Place where cryonic suspenders are stored; service for keeping ahead. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Jul 2015
FEEL FREE TO PASS / I'm Saving Gas -- bumper sticker
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Jul 2015
Intertwingled, The Festschrift-- Ebook celebrating Ted Nelson Day at Chapman University, 2014 (Springer-Verlag). tinyurl.com/nlyayoh
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Jul 2015
Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body? -- Virginia Woolf
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Jul 2015
Polyamory open relationship with official partners, lots of group discussions. An East Bay thing. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Jul 2015
The universe is rigged. -- Michael McCool
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jul 2015
The real money is in being 2-5 years ahead of your time. --Nicholas Carroll (Damn.)
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jul 2015
Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind. --Scott Nearing #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Jul 2015
When as idealists we plotted a grand digital future, we did not imagine the tiny shallow minds of today's digital rabble.
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Jul 2015
mocracy government with phony power arrangement. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Jul 2015
Respect the task. Prepare sufficiently. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Jul 2015
Surprise: 10 generations ago, call it 200 years, you had 1024 ancestors. 400 years ago, over a million; 600, a billion. (Non-unique.)
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2015
Prevailing myth: petroleum from biological decay. Technical arguments for abiogenic theory of petroleum-- tinyurl.com/qg8vj6s
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2015
isomurphic referring to the same Murphy. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jul 2015
Virginity-- a simple concept technically, but the background, issues and ramifications go on and on.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Jul 2015
My guess: the rotating center of the earth is plasma; veins of ore and petroleum are centrifugal jets, refined by spin, that found fissures.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Jul 2015
murphilinear pertaining to the kind of line that Murphy draws. (A gal some of us knew.) #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Jul 2015
murphilinear pertaining to the kind of line that Murphy draws. (A gal some of us knew.)
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Jul 2015
Like Al Gore, I seem to have become some sort of clown meme to the underinformed.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Jul 2015
My lovely Marlene is gone-- a lass and a lack.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jun 2015
snodule booger. Crypto-snodulary, pertaining to boogers of unknown origin. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jun 2015
Hope, discouragement and collapse are the nature of life, as living creatures forever fill the cracks and push the limits.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Jun 2015
dudology the study of dudes, or when to say "doo-dah". #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jun 2015
Packing is a process of selective condensation. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Jun 2015
If the software is unusable, no documentation is necessary. -- Josh Juran
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Jun 2015
megatation thinking big thoughts. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jun 2015
An appointment is like a wound across the day. #WorkMaxims
- @TheTedNelson: 31 May 2015
Cleverest ad in history: "If erection persists more than four hours, see your doctor immediately."
- @TheTedNelson: 27 May 2015
juxtaposy arranged flower. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 26 May 2015
It is well known that Einstein and Szilard wrote the fateful A-bomb letter to FDR, but not that they patented a refrigerator (#1,781,541).
- @TheTedNelson: 25 May 2015
ecc. eccetera. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 25 May 2015
If cars crashed as often as disk drives, few would dare to get in them.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 May 2015
aroundishment Parisian district (anglicization of 'arrondissement'. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 23 May 2015
Everything is like everything else, except to varying extents.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 May 2015
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand. -- Anonymous
- @TheTedNelson: 21 May 2015
Did they invent the Holy Ghost as a tie-breaker?
- @TheTedNelson: 21 May 2015
shenanigon tricky diagrammatic figure. (As distinct from crapezoid, bad diagrammatic figure.) #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 15 May 2015
fleximum most flexible. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 13 May 2015
Even the simplest objects disobey me.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 May 2015
hyperthogonal at right angles in more than three dimensions. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 12 May 2015
People have always kept telling me to stick to what THEY think is the subject.
- @TheTedNelson: 6 May 2015
cosmotician one who decorates or primps the universe; creation god. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 5 May 2015
What is the difference between neatness and the APPEARANCE of neatness?
- @TheTedNelson: 3 May 2015
GAFA, a term used in Europe-- "Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon". #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Apr 2015
[corr.] Is the glass half-empty or half-full? I'm afraid it's cracked and has't got much time left. But that's what they say about me...
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Apr 2015
[corr.] Schools have a standard format and methodology! And the one thing they achieve reliably is to MAKE EVERY SUBJECT UNINTERESTING.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Apr 2015
sniggularity laughable claim of uniqueness; preposterous upcoming event. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Apr 2015
Ted Nelson keynote at Information Architecture summit-- wish you could hear the audience go wild.youtu.be/tc95oZN2hKQ
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Apr 2015
In Japan,when you think you're biting into pastry or potato, but it tastes fishy-- you've been squd. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Apr 2015
(After Gladstone) I thought he was the cleverest man in England. (After Disraeli) I thought I was the cleverest woman in England. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Apr 2015
exagginary exaggerated and/or imaginary. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Apr 2015
I never did nothin' to a man that I wouldn't do to a woman! -- Peter Falk character, accused of being gay, in "Murder by Death" (Neil Simon)
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Apr 2015
ruminesce reminisce thoughtfully. -- Grandin Conover #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Apr 2015
"Everything is hierarchical" is a metaphysical statement-- it can't be proven true or false, only inconvenient.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Apr 2015
Déja Vous You again! Or, being very much yourself at an early age. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Apr 2015
Stereotypes float to the top.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Apr 2015
utleast very smallest. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Apr 2015
Web myth is like Lindbergh's-- many flew Atlantic before Lindy, many h'text systems before Web (4 by Larson on net-- tinyurl.com/qghp67l)
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Apr 2015
I may be odd, but I'm getting even.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Apr 2015
elaborinth very tangled maze. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Apr 2015
Hummeroid, Hummerhoid pain-in-the-ass SUV. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Apr 2015
Hummeroid, Hummerhoid pain-in-the-ass SUV.
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Apr 2015
If you don't stop or turn, you're going to get to where you're going. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Apr 2015
possibubble state in which special possibilities are imagined. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Apr 2015
If the answer were where everybody thinks, we would have it by now.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Apr 2015
narcissist Someone not interested in you and acting more important. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Apr 2015
They call it a school of fish because none of them thinks for themselves. -- Colyer Dupont
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Apr 2015
contraduction pulling in more than one direction. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Apr 2015
ad libidum as libido dictates. (As distinct from ad libitum, making up lines onstage.) #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Mar 2015
Looking for meaning in life is an abusive complication. -- Dave Marvit
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Mar 2015
jillpot concave reward. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Mar 2015
They say there are no atheists in foxholes, but then there are no foxholes in atheists, either.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Mar 2015
I dislike the Web the same way Stallman dislikes open source and Alan Kay dislikes today's OO-- a dumbdown and betrayal of first principles.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Mar 2015
transcombobulate convert to a new way of thinking. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Mar 2015
underpinings longings that underlie life. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Mar 2015
Though sneeze and orgasm are similar sensations, the latter is more esteemed.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Mar 2015
cross-velking adulterous connection between inappropriate or unacquainted Velcro parts. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Mar 2015
Where there's hope there's life.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Mar 2015
Information, once collected, will be misused. -- Richard Stallman (stallman.org/images/dog.jpg)
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Mar 2015
supperstition irrational personal belief about eating. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Mar 2015
Every subject is sprawling and elastic; so in writing one must be selective, which (alas) truncates many connections.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Mar 2015
"Social media"-- the digital rabble mooing in their cattle pens-- like this one.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Mar 2015
"Social media"-- the digital rabble mooing in their cattle pens.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Mar 2015
Because of the way Wikipedia articles accrete, the clearer, earlier parts are usually hidden toward the end of the article.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Mar 2015
angerziety edgy jitters. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Mar 2015
We take seriously the myths of a wandering tribe of shepherds because they wrote them down before it was fashionable.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Mar 2015
immacho not macho. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Mar 2015
Ignoramus et ignorabimus, "we do not know and will not know"-- Emil du Bois-Reymond, "On the limits of our understanding of nature", 1872.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Mar 2015
Every decision is a puzzle. The optimal solution to the puzzle is rarely everything you'd want.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Mar 2015
When daylight saving ends, you get an extra hour sleep-- they should do that every two weeks! 8am would be morning every January.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Mar 2015
muchismo grandly acquisitive attitude; philosophy of abundance. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Mar 2015
Like most Europeans, Marx saw history as progress, but turned on its head-- toward a future state of ultra-rational sharing. Enforced.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Mar 2015
disciplanarian trained flatworm. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Mar 2015
The utility companies are now conspiring against solar panels. tinyurl.com/q3etlpw
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Mar 2015
Shopping is research, don't knock it.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Mar 2015
I have been misunderstood because people see only the side of me that faces their paradigm.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Mar 2015
expectrum range of expectations; variety of phlegm. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Mar 2015
Well-intended fictions-- Santa Claus, recycling, democracy.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Mar 2015
smellecule aromatic unit. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Mar 2015
As an undergraduate, you're a Tourist in academia, and your professors are like the costumed characters at Disneyland.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Mar 2015
Every subject is interesting until it's taught in school.
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Mar 2015
Sex is the quintessential celebration of being alive.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Mar 2015
omnivolent wanting everything, and/or insisting on every detail. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Mar 2015
WHIRLIVERSE, SWIRLIVERSE the blooming, buzzing, ticking, swirling, stonking, interconnected majesty of it all. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Mar 2015
"The Imitation Game"-- great movie, rubbish history. Turing got along with his boss and co-workers, who all worked on the decrypt machine.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2015
Much of what is now called "technology" is ENSNAREMENT WORLDS, deliberately designed. Windows, Mac, Facebook, Google, Iphone-- you name it.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Mar 2015
whamsical whimsical with a punch. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Feb 2015
CPAP sleep masks-- designed BY AND FOR EUROPEAN ENGINEERS. They wouldn't tangle, shriek, come apart or dislocate teeth, if by Steve Jobs.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Feb 2015
Time's a-flyin' and the possibilities narrow.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Feb 2015
You are only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -- Robin Williams
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Feb 2015
dysplesia condition of being not pleasing. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Feb 2015
sophisticuffs conversational sparring among cognoscenti. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Feb 2015
It is interesting that flowers, the sex organs of plants, figure so prominently in human courtship.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Feb 2015
The laughter of girls and women can be life's greatest joy or life's greatest humiliation.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Feb 2015
How pronounce combo of Gay, Bi, Les, Queer/Questioning, Transexual-- BiGLTaQ, TaGLBiQ, GLeBiQueeT, BiQueLaGT, QueeQueBiLeGaT? #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Feb 2015
floton unit to be graphically displayed, esp. flying or floating. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Feb 2015
If you can say what field you're being original in, you're not being REALLY original.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Feb 2015
“science of computer programming”-- socially embedded, politically fraught, brittle in its appeal to scientific objectivity. -- Laine Nooney
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Feb 2015
Male velcro is rough and grabby, female velcro is soft and accepting. (Dare one say that?)
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Feb 2015
A man's virtues are often his flaws as well.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Feb 2015
It's so fucking complicated, there's no point in dying. -- Larry Moyer, on learning about Probate.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Feb 2015
The most beautiful words ever spoken-- "I'll take care of it."
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Feb 2015
deluniate stop mooning; get rid of the loonies. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Feb 2015
You can't abdicate and eat it. --- Wallis Simpson to her former king Edward
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Feb 2015
Why are months 9 through 12 named 7 through 10 in Latin? Because egotists Julius and Augustus Caesar had to have their own.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Feb 2015
palpotato trembling tuber; friendly spud. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Feb 2015
Conferences are like life-- too many opportunities, you always miss something.
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Feb 2015
Love needs no excuse. Sex does.
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Feb 2015
We might be living in the last gilded bubble of a great civilisation about to collapse into a new Dark Age. -- Brian Eno
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Feb 2015
Why don't the Chinese send in armies to protect the elephants, rebuild the herds, and assure themselves an ivory supply for the future?
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Feb 2015
Education is the process of ruining subjects for you. The last subject to be ruined determines your profession. -- TN, 1960s
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Feb 2015
ITarian-- the new twisted language of people who think of computers as "IT". -- Wes Clark, pioneer of the first minicomputer #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Feb 2015
Because I wanted everything to be easier, I got into vast and bottomless complications.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Feb 2015
The earliest fossil they've found with copulatory organs is the fish Microbrachius dicki [SIC], claimed by Scotland as another first.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Feb 2015
ETERNITY IS LOOMING. What to do?
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Feb 2015
ukrainium explosive new element. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Feb 2015
Working under budget is like writing a sonnet. -- a Hollywood insider
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Feb 2015
Illness is fractal (more and more variations); medicine is fractal (more and more treatments); med. payment is fractal (more and more cost).
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Feb 2015
"When teams aren't able to hit hurdles … sometimes we ask them to take a pause and reset their strategy." -- Why Google Glass was cancelled
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Feb 2015
Religions transpose the human status system into a realm of imaginary beings. Or at worst, ONE imaginary being.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Feb 2015
extravene butt out. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Jan 2015
I wanna churn your portfolio.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Jan 2015
So many people hated math and history until they were out of school. What does that say about the educational system?
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Jan 2015
Why is consciousnes a big philosophical issue? Organisms must perceive to order to react. The only surprise is how vivid it is to be one.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jan 2015
Power corrupts; obsolete power corrupts obsoletely. -- TN, 1970s
Translated from Spanish by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 21 Jan 2015
Status Qud kwuddy status quo. #NelsonWords
Translated from Romanian by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 18 Jan 2015
To make people think you know a lot, you just have to know a little more about most subjects than most people.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Jan 2015
queasine expensive food that makes you not feel right. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jan 2015
Alan Kay tells me the Internet would be safe if Intel had followed the PARC chip designs, with capability-based security). Is it too late?
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jan 2015
Life is essentially a detour that water sometimes takes on its way downstream. -- Erik Nonesuch Nelson
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Jan 2015
Virgin America's wild glorious safety video-- I hate the genre but love the instance. youtube.com/watch?v=DtyfiP…
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jan 2015
People think if you're clever you can't be deep. What about Voltaire and Feynman?
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Jan 2015
PRO-FUN-DITTY-- Machiavelli, Velli so low; Hang your head o-ver, Over you go.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Jan 2015
pervergin newbie to varietal sex. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 4 Jan 2015
The AssassinationBot is coming: camera hobbycopter with a gun. Why is no one worried?
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Jan 2015
Underneath our clothes we are all naked.
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Jan 2015
In the pretense of order and hope, we go on.
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Dec 2014
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it. --Einstein
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Dec 2014
HUMAN LIFE! We learn the rudiments early, the ramifications endlessly.
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Dec 2014
An alligator with an immobilized straight tail cannot get you in a death roll. GOOD TO KNOW.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Dec 2014
Google's new prototype looks like the ORIGINAL self-driving car-- the Scalawagon of Oz! Half-moon profile with turret. Coincidence or magic?
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Dec 2014
Soylent, the new "hacker's nonfood", is the digestive equivalent of celibacy. The French would be appalled. But it sure saves time.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Dec 2014
No man is an island. But then, no island is a man, either.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Dec 2014
magnosia only remembering the big stuff. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Dec 2014
Cleverly done, any literary conceit can be made to work. Consider 'Cyrano'-- a guy with a big nose has no chance with women? Gimme a break.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Dec 2014
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Dec 2014
Expansion feels good, contraction does not. One reason that we buy things.
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Dec 2014
Life involves death. Damn.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Dec 2014
hyperthetical imagined or imaginable in many directions. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Dec 2014
I guess you didn't really mean what I thought I heard you say.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Dec 2014
So much to know! So few people to know it.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Dec 2014
Pray for a dull moment. -- Marlene Mallicoat
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Dec 2014
The difference between the almost right word & the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. --Mark Twain
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Dec 2014
spontangle sudden orgy. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Dec 2014
Some fear the fridges and smartphones will gang up on us, disguise their voices, and become a Great Beast that will take over the world.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Dec 2014
minissimal utleast. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Dec 2014
Twitter is for people who want MORE distractions.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Dec 2014
What is the world's main problem? OVERSIMPLIFICATION!
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Dec 2014
I have tried to skip the obvious and find the magic.
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Nov 2014
I must invent my own systems, or else be enslaved by other men's. -- WIlliam Blake
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Nov 2014
übergoober Mr. Peanut #NelsonWords
Translated from German by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 26 Nov 2014
I want this impatience to go away NOW.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Nov 2014
Exposed money, weapons or genitalia drastically affect any situation.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Nov 2014
The ancient Romans, Greeks and Chinese all had cloth, rope, goo, fire and smart guys, but it took the French to think of hot-air ballooning.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Nov 2014
History never stops.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Nov 2014
Film pitch: "GHOULS OF ENRAGEMENT"-- monsters escape from a cellphone game, wreak havoc till defeated by kid who knows the game's tricks.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Nov 2014
swirliverse the ever-changing and ever-connecting, interpenetrating and unbounded. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Nov 2014
Keep your head above your heart. -- instruction after cataract surgery
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Nov 2014
Everything gets in the way of everything else.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Nov 2014
Man does not live by reason. In a situation not covered by some catch phrase he is helpless. -- Edna St.Vincent Millay
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Nov 2014
pussicrat feminist dictator. #NelsonWords
Translated from Romanian by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 17 Nov 2014
Promises are hard to remember, except other people's.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Nov 2014
As we drift along so pleasantly, the roar of the falls somehow keeps getting louder.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Nov 2014
Six of one half, a dozen of the other.
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Nov 2014
Life happens in real time.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Nov 2014
Why do dogs snuffle each others' behinds, but people's fronts?
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Nov 2014
minifesto small manifesto. #NelsonWords 1974
Translated from Italian by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 9 Nov 2014
Isn't it AMAZING and LUCKY that our faces are on the fronts of our heads! -- Marlene Mallicoat
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Nov 2014
Just think-- our faces are on the fronts of our heads! -- Marlene Mallicoat
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Nov 2014
tsumini small tsunami. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Nov 2014
They called it a game, and they ran till they died; and I ask, aren't we all just like Bonnie and Clyde?
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Nov 2014
cryptohunger thinking one is hungry, but not being sure. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Nov 2014
I have been greatly underestimated, especially by my inferiors.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Nov 2014
remolish put back together. (Cf. "relapidate".) #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Oct 2014
Come in Cindy, she's our guest. --girlfriend to Larry Moyer at 1960s orgy.
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Oct 2014 Replying to @yandle
@yandle @mcphoo Sorry, I won't use this barbaric public email.
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Oct 2014
Melt me in your crucible.
- @TheTedNelson: 26 Oct 2014
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- attributed variously
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Oct 2014
Databases are for simple facts, but there are fewer simple facts than people think. That's why the database problem gets bigger and bigger.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Oct 2014
exerstenchal pertaining to gym socks and intimate athletic apparel. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Oct 2014
Total eclipse of the earth! Happens every night.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Oct 2014
omnesia remembering everything. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Oct 2014
Life is matter's only chance to enjoy itself.
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Oct 2014
My new video-- WHO WILL SURVIVE EBOLA?youtu.be/YKsf8n3zWaQ
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Oct 2014
All the world's a stage, but we'll get over it.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Oct 2014
hypozeigarnia burnout of your Zeigarnik circuits, so you forget what you've finished and haven't-- Steve Witham #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Oct 2014
Shakespeare's big vocabulary required an audience with a big vocabulary. NOW look.
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Oct 2014
Why is 'Mikado' in Titipu, not Japan? Told not to insult Japan, Gilbert doubled the insult, naming the site of Japan's bloodiest uprising.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Oct 2014
Whizdom zippy profound understanding. #NelsonWords
Translated from German by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 13 Oct 2014
Apple without Jobs is like Disney without Walt-- committees and careerists pretending to the vision.
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Oct 2014
TrollHatred-- explains why Gory Jackal's attack on me in Wired was so vicious. seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the…
- @TheTedNelson: 12 Oct 2014
It was easy till I got down to it.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Oct 2014
Hope's brightest visions absquatulate. -- Rev. Dow, ca. 1858
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Oct 2014
mafium criminal element. #NelsonWords
Translated from Romanian by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 9 Oct 2014
In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they're different. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Oct 2014
esculation increasing kisses. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Oct 2014
All's well that tends well.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Oct 2014
The more you know, the greater the boundary of what you don't know.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Oct 2014
Done there, been that.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Oct 2014
idiodyssey silly voyage. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Sep 2014
Iranian nukes are not for Israel. They're for us.
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Sep 2014
malthusiasm vigorous and unfortunate reproduction. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Sep 2014
cramlife putting things in cartons, thinking you'll deal with them later. Lifecrammer, someone living this cycle. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 19 Sep 2014
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. -- Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Sep 2014
Right now, millions of people are fucking. But not you.
- @TheTedNelson: 15 Sep 2014
People think New Yorkers are interrupting them. No, we're just accustomed to talking in full duplex.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Sep 2014
hyperthetical imagined in many directions. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 13 Sep 2014
World War 4-- Poor and ignorant, nothing to lose, vs. rich and sophisticated weighed down with commitments, procedures, targets to defend.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Sep 2014
truth decay loss of detailed knowledge and understanding. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Sep 2014
They like my new explanation of Bitcoin, with aspects nobody told beginners before. Lot of work.youtube.com/watch?v=3CMucD…
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Sep 2014
If ebola kills 75% of the human race, will the survivors be able to operate the machinery?
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Sep 2014
We Geminis don't believe in astrology.
- @TheTedNelson: 8 Sep 2014
Shallow and conventional people don't like to be considered shallow and conventional.
- @TheTedNelson: 6 Sep 2014
idearrhea continuous inspiration. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Sep 2014
All my plans involve being younger.
- @TheTedNelson: 2 Sep 2014
Now I understand Austria-- it's the Canada of Germany! Cleaner, happier, and more relaxed.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Aug 2014
religion a cult with downtown lawyers. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Aug 2014
Ebola is going viral.
- @TheTedNelson: 29 Aug 2014
Every story has a happy ending, if you know when to stop. --Anon.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Aug 2014
@TheTedNelson on #Triangulation with @leolaporte Aha. On another medium. Thanks, T
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Aug 2014 Replying to @Urvaksh
I don't think I said this-- @Urvaksh "it's such a cascade of garbage." - @TheTedNelson on Twitter.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Aug 2014
I said that? When? About what?
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Aug 2014 Replying to @Urvaksh
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Aug 2014
contribulation troublesome contribution. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 24 Aug 2014
Abortion is not murder if it's legal, since murder is killing a person illegally.
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Aug 2014
PLUS ÇA CHANGE: "What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records, and Hollywood?" -- Adolf Hitler.
Translated from French by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 23 Aug 2014
"What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records, and Hollywood?" -- Adolf Hitler
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Aug 2014
If you give money to a panhandler, ask his name. The transformation will astonish you.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Aug 2014
vagitarian pussivore. #NelsonWords
Translated from Spanish by Microsoft - @TheTedNelson: 20 Aug 2014
marvelousy at once excellent and awful. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Aug 2014
My guess: the pteranodon lowerd its head and speared its prey. That's why they got so big.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Aug 2014
I talk to myself in order to keep current with my thinking.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Aug 2014
Monotheism is so oppressive, with its narcissistic, sexually obsessed dictator. Polytheists have a choice of god-pals.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Aug 2014
The other cheek to be turned is not on my face.
- @TheTedNelson: 17 Aug 2014
circumbobulate hang around, get acquainted. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Aug 2014
The more stuff you have, the more time you have to spend rearranging it.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Aug 2014
Each of us is a singularity around which a universe revolves.
- @TheTedNelson: 16 Aug 2014
Bumper sticker: MY PARADIGM SUBSUMES YOUR PARADIGM.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Aug 2014
Bumper sticker: MY PARADIGM SUBSUMES YOUR PARADIGM.
- @TheTedNelson: 11 Aug 2014
Umpward in a generalized or superlative direction. (Cf. "umpteen".) #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 10 Aug 2014
When a weasel goes Pop, what happens exactly?
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Aug 2014
I'm not in Denial, I'm in Hope. Possibly the same thing.
- @TheTedNelson: 5 Aug 2014
I'm not in Denial, I'm in Hope.
- @TheTedNelson: 3 Aug 2014
If Ebola hits a major city, will it be all over? All over the world, and all over for us?
- @TheTedNelson: 1 Aug 2014
The wars have sprung from deep disagreement. --Gwen Ifill, profound newscaster
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Jul 2014
History! You had to be there.
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jul 2014
Ebola is coming! Drop everything, and... uh...
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jul 2014
transplosion sudden rearrangement. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 30 Jul 2014
I asked Siri for a blowjob, but she was pretty evasive. --Larry Moyer
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Jul 2014
All the world's a stage, but we'll get over it.
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Jul 2014
It's all happening! Everywhere! Right now! --Eric Gullichsen
- @TheTedNelson: 27 Jul 2014
irriguardless lacking ditchwatchers. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jul 2014
Collaboration is like democracy— it works ony for brief golden periods.
- @TheTedNelson: 25 Jul 2014
prezipitation zipping, or unzipping, too soon. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 23 Jul 2014
The more I learn, the older I get.
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jul 2014
There is too much to say and it goes in all directions.
- @TheTedNelson: 21 Jul 2014
hypnothetical compellingly possible-seeming. #NelsonWords
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Jul 2014
We are controlled by the evil mind-body complex.
- @TheTedNelson: 18 Jul 2014
POSSIBILITY VERSUS REALITY-- the eternal game of everything.
- @TheTedNelson: 14 Jul 2014
Paranoids are always the first to know.
- @TheTedNelson: 9 Jul 2014
Life and death are both hereditary.
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jul 2014
Sorry, I meant "Carpe deum-- Seize the god!" Not to be monotheistic.
- @TheTedNelson: 7 Jul 2014
Carpe deum-- Seize the God!
- @TheTedNelson: 31 Mar 2014
Come one! Come all! Ted Nelson Day at Chapman University, April 24. #Intertwingled
- @TheTedNelson: 28 Jun 2013
Microsoft Word is a computer game-- to complete your mission you must solve puzzles set by committees of idiots. .#TedNelsonQuotes
- @TheTedNelson: 22 Jun 2013
The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken. -- Steve Witham [1980s]
- @TheTedNelson: 20 Jun 2013
Prepare the army, and send a woman to my tent. #TedNelsonQuotes