Top 38 David Gelernter Quotes
#1. The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you.
Stephen King
#3. There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
David Gelernter
#4. I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
Karl Pilkington
#5. Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.
David Gelernter
#6. By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
Warren Farrell
#7. Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Tony Robbins
#9. 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
#10. The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;
David Gelernter
#11. The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.
David Gelernter
#12. 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 where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.
David Gelernter
#13. If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?
David Gelernter
#14. I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
Chris Elliott
#15. Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.
David Gelernter
#16. The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.
David Gelernter
#17. We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
David Gelernter
#18. Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
H.P. Lovecraft
#19. 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 the design and construction of complex programs.
David Gelernter
#20. 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 history.
David Gelernter
#21. 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 or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.
David Gelernter
#22. 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 love to see this activity.
David Gelernter
#24. You see a guy, is what you see. Only God got distracted before he could slap a dick on me and went on to the next in line.
Stephen King
#26. The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright-and in the long run, that's how it will be.
David Gelernter
#27. Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
David Gelernter
#28. I try to really focus on the actors I'm working with and kind of read and respond to their behavior.
Jaime Murray
#29. In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit there in a state of suspended animation for up to 50 years in the life of each woman.
Mark Roth
#30. 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 of something worse, and it's not clear which way it will go.
David Gelernter
#31. 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. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.
David Gelernter
#32. The best computer scientists are ... technologists who crave beauty.
David Gelernter
#33. 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 to be let off for a year too. That's the GOP plan. What part don't you like?
David Gelernter
#34. I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry about whether it's made for men or women. Listen, we all like to put mum's clothes on sometimes. What's important is that it feels right for you.
Mark Ronson
#35. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.
David Gelernter
#36. Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
Carly Schroeder
#37. Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.
Joshua Reynolds
#38. The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.
Charles Stross
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