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.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

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.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.