Ted Nelson Quotes

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.