Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Popular Topics
Feeling, Excellent, Things, Mother'S Day, Faith, Intelligent, World, Hope, Once Upon A Time, Relationships, Impossible, Goodbye, Humble, Talent, Song, Quite, Private Life, Think, Alien, Inspired, Surprised, Drama, I Like You, Story, Memorable, Nice, Beauty, Like, Poet, Bible, Soccer, Involve, I Miss You, Life Is Good, Living My Life, Pregnancy, Religion, Thank You, Songs, Value Of Life, Kindness, Willing, Children, Weak, Movie Love, Amazing Music, Snows, Life, Creative, Future
David Gelernter

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.

Certificate, Children, Flow, Parent, Records, School
Same Author Quotes

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.

Choose, Important, Intellectual, Way, Would Be

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Against, Complexity, Defense, Design, Ultimate

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.

Beautiful, Field, Learning, Level, Technology

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.

Art, Construct, Dark, Future, Running, Take

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.

Arithmetic, Linear, Skills, Spelling, Video, Worry
Similar Quotes