The Real Romance Is Out Ahead And

[computing] Is Just A Fabulous Place For That, Because It's A Place Where You Don't Have To Be A Ph.d. Or Anything Else. It's A Place Where You Can Still Be An Artisan. People Are Willing To Pay You If You're Any Good At All, And You Have Plenty Of Time For Screwing Around.

A Computer Scientist Is A Machine For Converting Coffee Into Urine.

I Fear - As Far As I Can Tell - That Most Undergraduate Degrees In Computer Science These Days Are Basically Java Vocational Training.

By The Time I Got To School, I Had Already Read A Couple Hundred Books. I Knew In The First Grade That They Were Lying To Me Because I Had Already Been Exposed To Other Points Of View. School Is Basically About One Point Of View -- The One The Teacher Has Or The Textbooks Have. They Don't Like The Idea Of Having Different Points Of View, So It Was A Battle. Of Course I Would Pipe Up With My Five-year-old Voice.

Any Company Large Enough To Have A Research Lab Is Too Large To Listen To It.