Flashes of Panic

We had a colloquium on Monday featuring a talk from a Yale professor. The topic was relatively interesting, though I probably looked disinterested since I was so exhausted I was ready to nod off in the middle.

The curious part, however, was that rather than the ubiquitous Powerpoint slides, she had hand-drawn transparencies. At this two-day remove, I’m probably not word-perfect on this quote, but she explained it like this: “I don’t think it’s possible to do really good computer science unless you hate computers.”

We must have looked puzzled, because her expansion of that comment was, “You really need to use them a lot to get to hate them.”

I guess that’s a different kind of passion?

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