To není fér!

Takovéhle historky mě opravdu rozčilují. Zvlášť od někoho jako je Hamming. Považte sami:

I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, ``How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office!

Copak lze připustit, že ti lepší jsou lepší ne proto, že byli víc obdaření, ale protože prostě tvrději a více pracují? Sakra, kde je v tom nějaká tahle sociální spravedlnost? Já chci být líný génius, ne nějaký moula, který se celý život dře, aby z něj něco bylo.

Sakra.

PS: Jinak pokud jste ho zatím nečetli, doporučuji celý text: You and Your Research.