Saul Gorn Quotes

Saul Gorn was an American 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.

Gorn was hired by the Moore School as an associate professor in 1955. He worked on the early ENIAC and EDVAC computers.

The concept of a Gorn address comes from a paper by him, and the Association for Computing Machinery presented him its Distinguished Service Award for 1974.The Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture series has been established at the University of Pennsylvania in his memory. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. November 1912 – 22. February 1992
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Famous Saul Gorn Quotes

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

Saul Gorn

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 2; Cited in: Benjamin C. Pierce (2002) Types and programming languages. p. 313

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

Saul Gorn

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11

“This fact is clear to those who know it.”

Saul Gorn

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11

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

Saul Gorn

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11

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

Saul Gorn

Attributed to Saul Gorn in: John G. Gammack et al. (2011) The Book of Informatics. p. 5

“Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.”

Saul Gorn

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 1

Saul Gorn Quotes

“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.”

Saul Gorn

"The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems", in Heilprin, Markuson, and Goodman, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965 (Washington, DC: Spartan Books, 1965)

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

Saul Gorn

Attributed to Saul Gorn in: National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1968) Educational Broadcasting Review Vol 2. p. 32; Article "Teaching As A Private Process"

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

Saul Gorn

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 14

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