get an education you leet hax0rs

"Computer Science is no more about computers than Astronomy is about telescopes" - Dijkstra

The thing is, you don't really need a computer science degree to become a programmer, so those people that have such a degree and get reduced to programming jobs are overeducated. But without people who actually study the theory aspects, where do you get your beloved programming languages from? Who's going to figure out self-balancing trees to implement efficient set data structures? Who's going to design efficient network routing algorithms and cryptographic routines?

In addition, not many people realize the huge impact the development of computational theory has had on fields like cognitive science, philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, and others.

Without the advancement of theory, we'd all still be punching cards right now.