All David Gelernter Quotes
- The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on. Becoming
- 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… Choose
- Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. Beauty
- Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. Anywhere
- Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The… Aesthetic
- Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't. Bad
- 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… Allows
- 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.… Become Completely
- 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… Business
- If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about? Age
- 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… Care
- readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of… Authority
- 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… All
- 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… Birth
- 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.… Academics
- 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… Activity
- There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't. Certain
- 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… Absolutely
- 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,… Able
- 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… Better
- Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. Abolishing
- The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed; Achieved
- There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are… Beginning
- The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit. Book
- We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the… Absorb