David Gelernter Quotes
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The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.
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if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human…
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Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The…
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Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.
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Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify…
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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 operations.…
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One: Make Congress and the White House obey the same Obamacare rules you do. Two: Obama let business off for a year; we want workers…
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If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?
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Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own…
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readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of…
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I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the…
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In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school…
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Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have done similar things.…
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At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We'd…
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There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
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Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that…
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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,…
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I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead…
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