« All Learning Quotes · David Gelernter's Page
Learning Quotes by 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. ... The…
- Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.
- 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…
More Learning Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Sometimes I push too far, and say the worst possible things... But why would I want to be hurt again? trust is… — Unknown Author
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius