Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
Mandelbrot left IBM in 1987, after 35 years and 12 days, when IBM decided to
end pure research in his division.
When I was a contractor at IBM early in the Gerstner era, I had a not very intellectual but very funny, practical and
effective "lifer" IBM manager.
One day I was ranting to him about how IBM was driving out their best people.
He looked up at me and blinked through his coke-bottle eyeglasses.
"Jack," he said slowly and clearly, as if teaching a child, "the /best /always leave, because they can get more money
and more respect elsewhere. Those of us who stay are /pretty good/."
--
Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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