Absolutely. I do hope pedigree will matter even less in the future as formal education hopefully matters less as well. The important thing shouldn't be educati

Absolutely. I do hope pedigree will matter even less in the future as formal education hopefully matters less as well. The important thing shouldn't be education, but what is done with it. Here is a messy and incomplete list of cool things created by people from lower ranking universities: Python: University of Amsterdam. Ruby: University of Tsukuba. PHP: University of Waterloo. Javascript: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Rails: Copenhagen Business School Django: University of Bath and Missouri School of Journalism Drupal: Ghent University Linux: University of Helsinki MySQL: Helsinki University of Technology and ?? Perl: Seattle Pacific University Java: University of Calgary Objective C: Furman University and ?? C++: University of Aarhus C#: Technical University of Denmark