Top 37 Gelernter David Quotes
#1. The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;
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#2. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.
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#3. I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
Waylon Jennings
#4. 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.
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#6. I took one look at you," Hud said to Bailey, "and control went flying out the window. You tore down the brick wall around my heart one smile at a time.
Jill Shalvis
#7. There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
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#8. Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.
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#9. Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.
Jim Elliot
#10. 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.
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#11. Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.
Maggie Elizabeth Jones
#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.
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#13. Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it feels entirely alien to the listener; yet, the content and the subject matter is so Indian and relatable, it's still chutney.
Vir Das
#14. If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?
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#15. Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.
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#16. Rock music is niche.
Bono
#17. The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.
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#18. We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
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#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.
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#20. I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#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.
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#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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
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#27. When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
Jamie Cullum
#28. Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
Tom Peters
#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. The chain that bound her here was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but could never be broken. It
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#32. 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.
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#33. Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word. (Psalm 119:37 NLT)
Cherie Hill
#34. Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill
#35. The best computer scientists are ... technologists who crave beauty.
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#36. You can't keep failing. You can't keep being defiant and stubborn. You have to make changes. You need to turn your life around.
Khali Raymond
#37. 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?
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