[plt-scheme] Re: Computers considered harmful

From: Benjamin L.Russell (DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 11 02:20:37 EDT 2009

On Thu, 7 May 2009 15:26:19 -0500, Grant Rettke
<grettke at acm.org> wrote:

>On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:58 PM, namekuseijin <namekuseijin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Isn't that the difference between pragmatic folks and theorists? ;)
>
>Pragmatic folks "do", theoriests "think, then do"?

This brings to mind a related statement posted on the door of one of
my professors of computer science (back at Watson Hall at Yale
University) in circa 1992-94:

>Those who can, do.
>Those who can't, teach.
>Those who can't teach, do research.

-- Benjamin L. Russell
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