Ted Nelson Quotes

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Ted Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 17, 1937

Topics

GoodComputersYouBadGood News

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel A. Barker

ChangeVisionTimeChange The World

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

Jello Biafra

MusicWritingStartSan Francisco

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.

Simon Cowell

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I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

Tracey Ullman

FascinatedBollywood

Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.

Roger Deakins

ChallengeAchievementChallengesYou

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

Lorraine Toussaint

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It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.

Jay Cooke

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If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

Jonathan Kozol

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I wouldn't argue that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA.

Jon Jones

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'YHM' has broken many stereotypes on Indian television with its take on remarriage, infertility, and idea of marrying for the love for a child.

Divyanka Tripathi

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I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Dick Van Dyke

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