And how is that quote out of context? Are you saying Gould did not believe that the fossil record had large gaps?
Yes I am. and Gould directly addressed the use you are making of his writings and directly called it a lie.
Gould acknowledged gaps at the species level, but not at higher levels -- the levels now being talked about as "kinds."
Go back to my post on wolves and chihuahuas. That represents a tremendous change in body form, but it can happen in a few human lifetimes. That violates nothing in our understanding of evolution -- every individual is the same species as its parents. But such a change occurring over a few thousand generations would be completely invisible in the fossil record.
What Gould argued is that such "rapid" changes are typical, and the kinds of evolution visible in fossils is not spread evenly over time.