Althouse: "But mostly he just wants to be a professor."

October 12, 2006

"But mostly he just wants to be a professor."

Wow! I've never read a more impressive reinforcement of the belief that it's great to be a professor.

8 comments:

Unknown said...: I think you would be surprised how many millionaires are floating around Stanford in particular. Not that they all have his level of weath, of course! There was a considerably elevated level of "reinstatement requests" back in the 2000-2002 timeframe.; 10/12/06, 4:29 PM
The Drill SGT said...: vis-a-vis Stanford and UW, if they ever prove that Cheese either improves female sexual response or fights male pattern baldness, UW will have a lot of cheese millionaires in the ag department. :); 10/12/06, 6:11 PM
Unknown said...: I think that for the most part, people with a sense of personal worth, think that being a professor would be a cop out, or a way to be incompentant in the face of others, with an air of authority to only serve their own arrogance.

This is utter nonsense; and people with a sense of personal worth wouldn't stoop so low as to think it.; 10/12/06, 9:19 PM
Maxine Weiss said...: " Not that they all have his level of weath, of course!"--mcg

Oh yes they do, darn near close.

Stanford Faculty draws from the incredibly wealthy communities of Hillsborough, Atherton, the gorgeous Napa Valley $$$$$, Silicon Valley $$$$$, and then there's the wealthy Bay Area, Pacific Heights, Sausalito, and can't forget the Marin County hot tubbers.

Millionaires all. It's the wealthiest region in the USA.

Limousine liberals.

Peace, Maxine; 10/12/06, 9:51 PM
Unknown said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 10/12/06, 10:05 PM
Unknown said...: Maxine, I certainly know that Mr. Karim was not exaggerating (at least, not much) when he said that there were a few billionaires that take up professional residence in the Gates computer science building. I also know of many Stanford grad students who left academia to pursue start-up success; and of course many succeeded.

So I should have been more specific. Karim is not the only student at Stanford to have left to do startups, reaped sizeable financial rewards, and returned to finish his work. That is what I meant by the "reinstatement requests" comment.

What is unique about him is that he was able to stay in academia and still score a big win. That's pretty darn amazing.; 10/12/06, 10:09 PM
Unknown said...: Oh, and not all of them are limousine liberals.; 10/12/06, 10:10 PM
goesh said...: He certainly did not have a case of didaskeleinophobia, fear of going to school. MSN has quite piece on phobias this morning (hint hint)....; 10/13/06, 6:21 AM