Top 10 Quotes by Saul Gorn

The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.

Saul Gorn

Data, Names, Discipline

Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!

Saul Gorn

Sight, Goal, Effort

Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.

Saul Gorn

Examination, Information, Topics

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

Saul Gorn

Talking, Listening, Can Do

"Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés" by Saul Gorn, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, (p. 11), repository.upenn.edu. March 1992.

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

Saul Gorn

Thinking, Long, Enough

"Types and programming languages" by Benjamin C. Pierce, (p. 313), 2002.

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

Saul Gorn

Teaching, Mind, Matter

"Teaching As A Private Process". Educational Broadcasting Review, Volume 2, p. 32, 1968.

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

Men, Years, Skins

"The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems". "Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965". Book edited by Lawrence B. Heilprin, Barbara E. Markuson, Frederick L. Goodman, 1965.

Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.

Saul Gorn

Problem, Worthy, Artificial Intelligence

"Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés" by Saul Gorn, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, (p. 1), repository.upenn.edu. March 1992.

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

Keys, Finals, Use

"Planning Universal Semi-Automatic Coding". Book by Saul Gorn, 1954.