1 Oct
2011
1 Oct
'11
8:05 p.m.
On 01/10/11 6:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
A classic iconoclast, and from my readings of that book, usually
under-estimated, then and now.
--Toby
Ted Nelson, in
his classic Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974):
'Swarthmore left me with an exaggerated notion of the extent to which
ideas are valued in the academic world; it took two graduate schools to
clear this up. After that, as far as I was concerned, Ph.D. stood for
Poophead.'
Ted is not always thoroughly in touch with academia.