I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on. — David Gelernter Copy Share
“Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.” — David Gelernter Copy Share
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
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
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
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
