Odd choice for the headline. I think the much more choice quote from Greenspun is this: All the smart young Americans have gone to law, business, and medical s

Odd choice for the headline. I think the much more choice quote from Greenspun is this: All the smart young Americans have gone to law, business, and medical school. Companies don’t like to hire old people (> 30 years) to write computer programs because it saddens them to see old folks doing something so degrading. (he's attributing this mentality to the HBS lot) I'm seeing this a lot now that I've gotten into development in the financial industry. I think for some people developers will always be inseparably tied to the stereotypical unkempt and petulant tech-support guy who troubleshoots Windows boxes all day. It's not a particularly well-respected profession unless you're doing the start-up thing in which case you're only respected because of the business aspect (and your potential to become a millionaire by 30), not the cool/hard things you may doing on the technology side.