I've read this before but RF is one of my personal 'heros' in life and so find it as touching today as ever. And a tacit reminder that no matter who any of us are the forces or nature apply equally. I'm sure that one day when cancer is eradicated from our lives that it will be someone who read RF.
Thinking Machines eventually went out of business but if I remember correctly the s/w part of the company became part of Sun, which as we all know, also is no longer. The company DNA has ended up in Redwood Shores, home to both SQL the language and SQL the airport.
There are a lot of very interesting youtube video interviews with RF from the British TV series Horizon.
I've seen this story before too, but I always enjoy re-reading it.
I especially enjoyed the part where Feynman showed up and they didn't have anything important for him to do right away, so they sent him out to get office supplies. A lot of people would have thrown around a lot of attitude about how running an errand like that was beneath them. Even though Feynman really was a big shot, he never acted like one (and he despised those who did act that way). It was just a job that needed to be done, so he went out and did it.
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I've read this before but RF is one of my personal 'heros' in life and so find it as touching today as ever. And a tacit reminder that no matter who any of us are the forces or nature apply equally. I'm sure that one day when cancer is eradicated from our lives that it will be someone who read RF.
Thinking Machines eventually went out of business but if I remember correctly the s/w part of the company became part of Sun, which as we all know, also is no longer. The company DNA has ended up in Redwood Shores, home to both SQL the language and SQL the airport.
There are a lot of very interesting youtube video interviews with RF from the British TV series Horizon.
I've seen this story before too, but I always enjoy re-reading it.
I especially enjoyed the part where Feynman showed up and they didn't have anything important for him to do right away, so they sent him out to get office supplies. A lot of people would have thrown around a lot of attitude about how running an errand like that was beneath them. Even though Feynman really was a big shot, he never acted like one (and he despised those who did act that way). It was just a job that needed to be done, so he went out and did it.