“I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.” — Brian Kernighan Quote

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.

I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.

I think Roland read 'Primal Scream' first and then gave it to me. This was, I think, even prior to 'The Graduate' days. We both got heavily into and it offered a lot of questions about how screwed up our home life was.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.