Link: FriendFeed四位创始人之间的故事
2009/10/10Stanford friendships fed success of social networking innovator FriendFeed.
……he(Jim Norris) knew he enjoyed making technology work and the Stanford classes he enjoyed the most were hard-core, operating systems and compiler courses taught by Professors Mendel Rosenblum and Monica Lam.
……he(Bret Taylor) took what he figured would be an elective, CS106X, “Programming Abstractions,” with lecturer Jerry Cain (a full-time employee of Facebook) and that hooked him on computer science.
(Sanjeev Singh) cut his teeth programming an Apple II. Singh grew up in Singapore but what brought him to the Bay Area for college was the inspiration he felt in high school when he read Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by now Stanford President John Hennessy and leading UC Berkeley computer science professor David Patterson. Cal didn’t accept Singh but Stanford did. At Stanford he was indeed able to indulge his interest in computer architecture, taking an electrical engineering class taught by Professor Kunle Olukotun that he recalled as being “crazy awesome.”
相同的课程,讲授的老师不同,会产生大不同的结果,这便是“大学”与大学之间的区别。
好老师需要做的,是把学科的美讲出来,美会自然地散发出吸引力,剩下的完全可以交给学生自己,一切随缘。


