You and I, seemingly different, are actually one.


Pranava K. Jha

Dept. of Computer Science
St. Cloud State University
720 Fourth Ave. South
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498

Office Phone:. (320) 308 3073
Office Fax:      (320) 308 4269


 If you believe education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok

Education:

God is dead, long live Godhood. 

 

Association: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society for Computing Sciences)
 
 

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. 
- Oscar Wilde

Tense Past

pray: To ask that laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. 
- Ambrose Bierce

Research Interests:

 Fact is stranger than fiction, since fiction has to make sense.
(Anonymous)

Publications
 

Behind every worldly boon, there exists an inalienable curse. 
- Shree Ramakrishna

Friends and Philosophers

There is many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good  teacher. 
- Flannery O'Connor

Teaching Experience:

There are two ways to constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors. 
-  Tony Hoare 

                     ("Emperor's Old Clothes,"  Turing Award Lecture, 1980)


(Back in 1995)
 

The generous will have many possessions. 


(Back in 1999)

 

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

 

(At Fields Museum, Chicago)

 

Hell awaits those who keep a count of believers and non-believers. 

 

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Last updated Feb. 21, 2008)