Ted Nelson Quotes

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

The Mayans have predicted the world is supposed to end on December 21. If the world doesn't end on December 21, you can bet the next day the malls will be overrun with Mayans trying to buy last-minute gifts.

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive.

We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.