Paul Graham读完计算机研究生后,改读艺术系的PHD,当画家去了。这是他的看法:
Quotes from Paul Graham, Hackers and Painters (
http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html ):
At one end you have people who are really mathematicians, but call what they're doing computer science so they can get DARPA grants. In the middle you have people working on something like the natural history of computers-- studying the behavior of algorithms for routing data through networks, for example. And then at the other extreme you have the hackers, who are trying to write interesting software, and for whom computers are just a medium of expression, as concrete is for architects or paint for painters. It's as if mathematicians, physicists, and architects all had to be in the same department.