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The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

David Gelernter

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

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

Scientists nowadays rarely know how to read seriously. They are accustomed to strip-mining a paper to get the facts out and then moving on, not to mollycoddling the thing in search of nuances; there probably aren't any.

David Gelernter

David Gelernter

David Gelernter

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Born: March 5, 1955 (age 71)

Bio: David Hillel Gelernter is an American artist, writer, and professor of computer science at Yale University.

Known for:

America-Lite (2012)
Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber (1997)
1939, the Lost World of the Fair (1995)

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