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SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.
Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.
I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.
The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.
The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice.
We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.
Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.
Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.
An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
