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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really surprising when it is the overwhelming view of parents on this board that the humanities are a complete waste of time, and everyone needs to be studying CS to make maximum $$ in tech or finance.[/quote]

Meanwhile some of the very best minds in actual computer science - not software engineering or cowboy coding or being an elite "hacker," but the people who invented the very concepts that drive computing - will tell you the liberal arts are critical to their thinking.[/quote]

Although it tends to be philosophy and logic vs reading fiction.

Einstein loved the great thinkers, but you don’t read about him extolling the virtues of literature authors.[/quote]

As someone who knows some of the great minds in computer science today personally, you could not be more wrong. Not only are they voracious readers, they are voracious readers of fiction. You obviously don’t know any of today’s leaders personally. [/quote]

OK...list some names.  [/quote]

Um, no. I am absolutely not outing my friends. But I will tell you about one of them, to give you more color: I’m in a fiction-based book club with this particular friend, something we started years ago after talking about how we wanted more structure to our reading. It’s been going for years now. He is well-recognized as a luminary in the field by his peers.

This idea that the great minds of CS do not read fiction is absolutely bizarre. You cannot be serious. [/quote]

This person wasn't friends with the CS kids in school. They were the ones reading 600 page sci-fi/fantasy books (that were part of a 10 book series) before any of us stumbled upon it. [/quote]

You are correct...but that is considered trash fiction by most of the people on this thread.[/quote]

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