Computer Science Is No More About Computers

Write A Paper Promising Salvation, Make It A "structured" Something Or A "virtual" Something, Or "abstract," "distributed" Or "higher-order" Or "applicative" And You Can Almost Be Certain Of Having Started A New Cult.

About The Use Of Language: It Is Impossible To Sharpen A Pencil With A Blunt Axe. It Is Equally Vain To Try To Do It With Ten Blunt Axes Instead.

Many Mathematicians Derive Part Of Their Self-esteem By Feeling Themselves The Proud Heirs Of A Long Tradition Of Rational Thinking; I Am Afraid They Idealize Their Cultural Ancestors.

I Think Of The Company Advertising "thought Processors" Or The College Pretending That Learning Basic Suffices Or At Least Helps, Whereas The Teaching Of Basic Should Be Rated As A Criminal Offence: It Mutilates The Mind Beyond Recovery.

In Passing I Draw Attention To Another English Expression Which Often Occurs In Dutch Texts: "the Real World". In Dutch - And I Am Afraid Not In Dutch Alone - Its Usage Is Almost Always A Symptom Of A Violent Anti-intellectualism.