The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way.… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ...… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.” — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about? — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
