professor

My IP law professor once stopped class and shouted at someone wearing a polo with the disney logo, "Sir, are you trying to antagonize me? !"

I had a college math professor who once said, "Many of my students are simply not suited for the sciences." And I was stupid enough to believe him!

If even rtm, tenured professor of computer science at MIT, can't escape from sysadmin duty, I really have no hope.

I had a professor once put it this way: disease is just that -- a dis-ease. The first thing you have to understand is that no organism lives in a biological vacuum.

It was more or less assumed that if you were capable, you wanted to be a professor. It took awhile before I could really see the pros/cons of tying my research to that particular structure.

What we have can be described as a big "fuck you" from some dean or whatever arrogant professor feels entitled to speak up." 50% of you won't be here in 1 year" is something you get told on first day of university.

I am in my first year as a mathematics professor at the University of South Carolina. Having moved here from Stanford, I've noticed several things.

Your average college professor isn't going to learn how to use a version control system to suggest changes to his student's thesis-in-progress.

Id=6258093 -- about a math professor whom the NSA employed for a couple summers as a math undergrad in Princeton now calling on his colleagues to question their contributions and to speak up. It raises a timeless question in science and engineering: "I can do this, but should I?

Dr. Kaplan is a professor at UPenn where I'm a Bioengineering major. He gave a lecture to one of my classes about FOP and it was so inspiring to see how much progress he has made on a disease with only a handful of cases that was supposed to be impossible to cure.

There's a demonstration done in an early statistics class in which the professor divides the class into two groups. He tells one to toss a coin a hundred times and record the sequence of heads and tails, while the others are to write down a sequence they think is random using their imagination.

-- It also reminds me of a conversation I had with a professor of mathematics that taught one of my classes. He said he started and stopped editing Wikipedia the same day - when one of his changes to a graph theory article was reverted by someone who was "a computer repair technician" because of some Wiki-rule.

It's up to you to set limits on the amount of time you're willing to spend working, and most new hires at Google are used to being limited by "the amount of work my boss/professor/thesis advisor throws at me", not by the number of hours in the day.

I'm immensely glad and lucky to have had Brian Harvey as a professor, and this echoes exactly what he taught us and the general teaching at Berkeley: that the concepts of programming and computer science were of paramount importance, and that you should understand them in the abstract. To this day, this is why I value a good theoretical CS education, why I value university education, and why I continue to look back on and use my supposedly theoretical and impractical CS education with great respect.