Top 32 Gelernter Quotes

#1. I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

Joe Eszterhas

Gelernter Quotes #21792
#2. Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

Paul Stanley

Gelernter Quotes #62068
#3. 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

Gelernter Quotes #63847
#4. 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

Gelernter Quotes #67246
#5. 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

Gelernter Quotes #99173
#6. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #133092
#7. Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #229793
#8. 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

Gelernter Quotes #267227
#9. Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #272829
#10. 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

Gelernter Quotes #448985
#11. 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

Gelernter Quotes #542332
#12. The best computer scientists are ... technologists who crave beauty.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #610514
#13. 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

Gelernter Quotes #634051
#14. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #667287
#15. America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Gelernter Quotes #870186
#16. Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

Tariq Ramadan

Gelernter Quotes #876338
#17. 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

Gelernter Quotes #1033725
#18. Computers make people stupid.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1129040
#19. There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1192939
#20. Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1272400
#21. When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

David Morrissey

Gelernter Quotes #1347538
#22. I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

Morning Star

Gelernter Quotes #1374485
#23. 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

Gelernter Quotes #1433342
#24. The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1440114
#25. I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

Kelly Reilly

Gelernter Quotes #1492190
#26. I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

Milla Jovovich

Gelernter Quotes #1493371
#27. 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

Gelernter Quotes #1524533
#28. If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1646866
#29. Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1725616
#30. The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1736633
#31. We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

David Gelernter

Gelernter Quotes #1773801
#32. 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

Gelernter Quotes #1845843

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