I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.

— Ted Nelson, In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates (2009)

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11stream.html?_r=1

Quoted in a 2009 New York Times article by John Markoff.

Topics: programming, software design