On Oct 30, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Theodore H.Smith wrote:
I have a distaste for the academia, because:
1) If you look at the pioneers of modern computing, few came from the
academia.
Like who?
Steve Jobs?
Jobs is not an inventor of algorithms.
A great salesman maybe. But not "important" in the same way that others
are.
He'll be remembered as the CEO and co-founder of Apple.
Woz was the computing genius early on.
Besides, I've learnt more about developing, from reading books that
were written for a more practically minded person. "Writing Solid
Code" for example, that is a very practical book. It doesn't use the
academic approach at all, its all pragmatic stuff.
Turing was a maths scholar, Engelbart was working as a
researcher, and if you look more recently, Google was started by two
PHD students.
I don't think that academia stops people from progressing in
computing. Just that it is overrated. I think, that if the two
founders of Google did sign up for a course, they would be just as
good as they are now. No more no less. They'd probably have spent a
few years with less debt, although that really makes no difference to
them anymore.
Doubtful
Google was founded based on research they were doing FOR their PhD
thesis
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