Obsolete Power Corrupts

Moving down my bookshelf, I was looking for a good Peter Norvig quotation. Through providence (read: Google), I discovered that Norvig himself maintains a quotes page, and here was my favorite:
“Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.”
~ Ted Nelson, on the Microsoft DOS operating system
Unfortunately, I could not find the source of the quotation, [...]

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