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

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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