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Saul Gorn Quotes

d. 1992

Saul Gorn (10 November 1912 – 22 February 1992) was a pioneer in computer and information science who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 30 years. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) presented him its Distinguished Service Award for 1974.

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If you expect to sell what you make, you must also fabricate information about it.

It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious.

p. 2; Cited in: Benjamin C. Pierce (2002)

Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.

This fact is clear to those who know it.

A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

to Saul Gorn in: National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1968)

Science vs. Technology: We should know why things must act as they do, to make them act as we want them to.

Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants.

Saul Gorn (1954)

Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say

to Saul Gorn in: John G. Gammack et al (2011)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Saul Gorn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.