"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."

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Source : Slashdot interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.

Philip Greenspun

#Focus Quotes #Debate Quotes #University Quotes

“The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?”
“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.”
“When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.”
“The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.”
“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.”
“My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.”
“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”
“My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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