At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their… — David Gelernter Activity 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… — David Gelernter Beauty Copy Share Image
readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the… — David Gelernter Authority Copy Share Image
The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty. — David Gelernter Beauty 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… — David Gelernter Aesthetic 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… — David Gelernter Answers 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"… — David Gelernter Bad idea Copy Share Image
The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on. — David Gelernter Becoming Copy Share Image
“Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.” — David Gelernter Courage Copy Share Image
If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about? — David Gelernter Age Copy Share Image
Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't. — David Gelernter Beautiful 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… — David Gelernter Argument 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… — David Gelernter Able 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… — David Gelernter Beautiful 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… — David Gelernter Computer Copy Share Image
I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching… — David Gelernter Disappear Copy Share Image
The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours.… — David Gelernter Art Copy Share Image
There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't. — David Gelernter Certain Copy Share Image
We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox. — David Gelernter Earth Copy Share Image
Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have… — David Gelernter Acknowledge Copy Share Image
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter Book Copy Share Image
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful… — David Gelernter Complexes Copy Share Image
Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally. — David Gelernter Good ideas Copy Share Image
I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by… — David Gelernter Clear Copy Share Image
