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title: "1 Sonata Form Quotes By David Gelernter"
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> [Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/abolishing-the-book-is-like-abolishing-the-symphony-or-sonata-form-or/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

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## More by David Gelernter

> [At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/at-the-same-time-on-the-networks-there-are-thousands-of-groups-that/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/beauty-is-more-important-in-computing-than-anywhere-else-in/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/readable-text-and-authority-so-that-readers-know-how-to-spend-no/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/the-best-computer-scientists-are-technologists-who-crave-beauty/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/beauty-is-more-important-in-computing-than-anywhere-else-in-2/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/similarly-for-marking-exercises-quantitative-exercises-maybe-not-so/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/the-paperless-office-is-a-bad-idea-because-paper-is-one-of-the-most/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/the-first-step-is-always-to-succeed-in-becoming-surprised-to-notice/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [“Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/discouragement-is-a-moral-state-a-failure-of-heart-you-treat-it-by/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/if-this-is-the-information-age-what-are-we-so-well-informed-about/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/good-programmers-know-what-s-beautiful-and-bad-ones-don-t/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/while-we-bemoan-the-decline-of-literacy-computers-discount-words-in/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/i-would-love-to-see-writing-taught-online-because-at-university-like/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/we-still-have-books-because-they-are-so-brilliantly-suited-to-the-way/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gelernter/for-years-computer-scientists-were-treating-operating-systems-design/)

[David Gelernter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gelernter/)

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