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.

Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information system to alert us to these grand events; they will hit us in the face. Another good excuse for ignoring the literature is that, since everyone has strong beliefs about fundamentals but can't support those beliefs rationally or consistently convince non-believers, computer science is actually a religion.

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

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

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

The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.