Life in CS

James Purtilo

Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Maryland at College Park

Brendan Iribe Center
8125 Paint Branch Drive #5214
College Park MD 20742

301.405.2706
purtilo @ umd.edu

Research

Academics

... on Computer Science

  • There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
  • People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play one forwards, it installs Windows.
  • "The problem with quotes on the Internet is that they cannot be verified." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1865
UMCP CS Leadership

... on College Park

  • Institutions of higher learning have no place for free thinkers. In fact, here you must pay a lot to be allowed to think like everyone else.
  • What's the opposite of diversity? University.
  • He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
UMCP Campus Leadership UMCP Performance Reviews

... on Everything

  • "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill
  • "Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have." -- Davy Crockett
  • "Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good." -- Charles Chaput
  • "If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side." -- Jim Steinman
  • I slept, and dreamed that life is beauty;
    I woke, and found that life is duty.
  • More quotes, lest we would forget.
  • Freedom is not free.

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