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Computers make people stupid.
David Gelernter / Artist
Computer
People
Stupid
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Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
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Design
Complexity
Defense
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Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.
David Gelernter / Artist
Learning
Beautiful
Programmers
Programming
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The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.
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Book
Brilliant
Units
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The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.
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Computer
Crave
Scientist
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If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?
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Age
Information
Wells
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Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.
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Good Ideas
Ideas
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We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
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Earth
Evil
Share
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There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
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Certain
Online
Taught
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Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
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Book
Symphony
Wall
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The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.
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Book
Form
Mankind
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The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.
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Funny
Creativity
Firsts
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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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Important
Intellectual
Would Be
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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 wrong way.
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Opportunity
May
Print Media
Thinking
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
David Gelernter / Artist
Technology
Important
Simplicity
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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 most beautiful things we have.
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Beautiful
Book
Information
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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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Teacher
Writing
Yale
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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 written with style.
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Book
Lectures
Style
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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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Building
Groups
Way
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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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Thinking
Way
Years
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Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.
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Looks
Needs
Numbers
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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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Obamacare
Two
Years
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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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Care
Laptops
Unification
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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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Learning
Giving
Powerful
Real
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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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Ideas
Media
Office
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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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Cutting
Reality
Years
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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 records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.
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Children
Parent
School
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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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Cutting
Engineering
Exercise
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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 / Artist
Art
Running
Dark
Long
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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. That makes me angry personally, not because of the money, but because of the deliberate failure to acknowledge work that we would have made freely available as academics.
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Aspect
Done
Made
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While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.
David Gelernter / Artist
Skills
Video
Worry
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.
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Learning
Technology
Beautiful
Winning
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