If you're into programming, I think you'd find the interview informative. Even if you don't care about programming, I think it's fascinating to hear what he has to say. When asked about teaching programming classes he comments on how schools should not be teaching things people can learn in trade schools and goes on to say, "That's not what universities should be doing; universities should be teaching things which are likely to last, for a lifetime if you're lucky, but at least 5 or 10 or 20 years, and that means principles and ideas. At the same time, they should be illustrating them with the best possible examples taken from current practice."

Another interesting point is when the interviewer asks him what areas a student who's interested in computers should enter, amongst other things, he says, "I think unfortunately the best advice you can give somebody is ``do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway''. But that's not any real help."

As I said, it's an interesting interview.