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
- (Fall 2025) CMSC 435: Software Engineeering
- RSAC 2025 Coordinator
... 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
... 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.
... 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.