It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits. This circumstance makes the choice of first programming language so important.
E.W. Dijkstra: To the members of the Budget Council (concerning Haskell), 12 April 2001
Titles are funny.
The GW culture initiative can be summed up in two words: Mickey Mouse.
I think my students are being entirely rational when they “distract” themselves in my class with their phones. They understand the world they are being prepared to enter much better than I do. In that world, I’m the distraction, not their phones or their social-media profiles or their networking. Yet for what I’m supposed to be doing — educating and cultivating young hearts and minds — the consequences are pretty dark.
Ron Srigley: I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about living without them.
Meestal beginnen professoren na dergelijke wandelingen of excursies moppen te vertellen, kwaad te spreken van hun collega's, of mededelingen te doen over hun honden, katten, kinderen.
Willem Frederik Hermans: Nooit meer slapen
