"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."

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Source : "Philip Greenspun Answers". Slashdot Interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.

Philip Greenspun

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“Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.”
“Art is what everyone knows it is.”

Source : Benedetto Croce, Remo Bodei (2007). “Breviary of aesthetics: four lectures”, Univ of Toronto Pr
“For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions”
“Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.”
“We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.”
“It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.”
“Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do.”
“Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just thought it was an American city because there were so many Mexicans there.”

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