俄罗斯人以成为华尔街最好的程序员而闻名，而塞尔格认为他知道原因：他们被迫学习计算机编程，而没有无尽的计算机时间。多年后，当他有足够的计算机时间时，Serge在将它们键入机器之前仍在纸上写下了新程序。他说，在俄罗斯，计算机上的时间是在几分钟之内测量的。当您编写程序时，给您一个很小的时间插槽以使其正常工作。
(Russians had a reputation for being the best programmers on Wall Street, and Serge thought he knew why: They had been forced to learn to program computers without the luxury of endless computer time. Many years later, when he had plenty of computer time, Serge still wrote out new programs on paper before typing them into the machine. In Russia, time on the computer was measured in minutes, he said. When you write a program, you are given a tiny time slot to make it work.)
