To: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter Sun Apr 14 22:47:50 PDT 2013 We live in a sound bite era. So, I've put together a set of sound bites on H-1B, at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1bquotes.html [Next, the manga comics version. :-) ] Longtime readers will recognize about half of these quotes, but many will be new even to the longtimers. Here are a couple of my favorites among the new ones: 1. "...a Ph.D. in computer science is probably a financial loser in both the short and long terms, says [Cisco Systems Vice President for Research] Douglas Comer" -- Science Careers, April 11, 2008 2. "[We in tech] control massive distribution channels, both as companies and individuals...We have individuals with a lot of money. If deployed properly this can have huge influence in the current campaign finance environment" -- Joe Green, leader of Mark Zuckerberg's new immigration lobbying group Quote 1 is priceless. Imagine -- even Cisco, one of the most prominent Silicon Valley firms, is saying that it's a waste of time to pursue a PhD in Computer Science! Keep this in mind next time you hear the industry lobbyists say that the industry hires H-1Bs because not enough Americans pursue doctorates. So how did Comer happen to blurt this out? He actually is an academic, who was on extended leave from Purdue at Cisco at that time. So, he wasn't sophisticated enough to know that he was speaking out of school. Quote 2 is...well, pretty disgusting. I recall seeing Green on TV back when he was in high school, by the way, in a documentary on kids pushing to get into the Ivy League. He hoped to get into Harvard, but his SAT Math score was low (in spite of being the son of a UCLA math professor, which is why I recall all this). Well, he eventually got the score up, and became Mark Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard. Norm Archived at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Quotes.txt