Most college students, fortunately, are brash enough never … - Joel Spolsky

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Most college students, fortunately, are brash enough never to bother asking their elders for advice, which, in the field of computer science, is a good thing, because their elders are apt to say goofy, antediluvian things like "the demand for keypunch operators will exceed 100,000,000 by the year 2010" and "lisp careers are really very hot right now."

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Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a programmer, entrepreneur, and writer.

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