Peter Norvig answers reddit's questions (Ask Me Anything video interview)

That was great - well worth 30 minutes. He seems to take so much more of a 'scientific' approach to his work and general thinking than I do - I am now sitting here thinking about my own thought processes and the ways I analyze problems. (I rely probably too much on previous experience, rather than new analysis.)

I also liked his question to the Reddit community re: does up/down voting produce a system that gives us what we want.

Do you agree with the answer to #2? He goes on to say that some former JPL employee named Ron attributed his high productivity to Lisp but, when he joined Google he found out C++ programmers there that were more productive that he in Lisp. Then he realized it was the programmers that mattered, not the programming language.

Now, isn't this a bit stretched? I'd believe if it was Python against Lisp, of course...