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WILLIE NELSON England expects that every man will do his duty. HORATIO NELSON They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi... TED NELSON The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowe... TED NELSON The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions -... TED NELSON So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut any... TED NELSON Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. TED NELSON In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking... TED NELSON I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I... TED NELSON But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted i... TED NELSON I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am muc... TED NELSON The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for th... TED NELSON So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ide... TED NELSON I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media. TED NELSON So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the stru... TED NELSON Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. TED NELSON Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independ... NELSON MANDELA I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure border... NELSON MANDELA Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizati... NELSON MANDELA I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. NELSON MANDELA I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. NELSON MANDELA I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will... NELSON MANDELA The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had un... NELSON MANDELA I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed the... NELSON MANDELA I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world. NELSON MANDELA At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl... NELSON MANDELA The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhun... NELSON MANDELA