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Graduate students spend years in a culture that views academic careers as the crème de la crème (this is especially true at elite institutions), and pretty soon they begin to believe it. Not pursuing an academic career can be seen as settling for second best, if not downright failure.

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"we have no need for dynamic higher-order programming. All we need is static higher-order programming. In fact, "static higher-order programming" has another name.... In Lisp and its many relatives, "static higher-order programs" are called macros."

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"What world do you live in? The one where young people are the last to figure out a new technology? The one in which grandpa has to show little Bobby how to program the VCR? [...] Children love computers, in no small part because they love learning."

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"The entire referee system is a non-working anachronism from the Victorian Age of Noble Rich Dilettante Do-Gooders. [...] As science became bigger and became an enterprise of numerous professionals rather than few amateurs, this system became incapable of

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Do not believe there is no worthwhile life outside academia! [...] It is more than possible to find enjoyable, ethically-sound, world-improving work outside academia - in fact it's probably no harder than it is to find similar work inside the Academy

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Graduate school is not education. It is socialization. It is about learning to behave, about mastering a rhetorical and discursive etiquette as mind-blowingly arcane as table manners at a state dinner in 19th Century Western Europe.

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"Let's say a mother finds an application to Duke University's Ph.D. program in English under her daughter's mattress. Obviously the mother is devastated. If she does nothing, in a year her daughter will be dressed in black and sneering in obscure jargon a

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