My Childhood Home Backed Onto Wheat And

So Mothers Everywhere Take Heart. The Indoctrination You Administer Now May Have Unanticipated Positive Effects Years Later.

To This Day I Always Insist On Working Out A Problem From The Beginning Without Reading Up On It First, A Habit That Sometimes Gets Me Into Trouble But Just As Often Helps Me See Things My Predecessors Have Missed.

My Childhood Home Backed Onto Wheat And Cotton Fields.

It Is An Interesting Fact That During My Tour I Was Never Allowed Access To Computers, Radios, Or Anything Else That I Might Damage Through Curiosity, Or Perhaps Something More Sinister.

It Was At Bell Labs That I First Made Direct Contact With Real Semiconductor Experts And Thus Began To Fully Understand What Amazing Materials They Were And What They Could Do.