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Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man.
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The traits that can make your life interesting, I learned, have very little to do with intensive soul-searching. Princeton Web Solutions [Cal's high school web company], in other works, inoculated me against the idea that occupational happiness requires a calling.
The world is filled with opportunities like Princeton Web Solutions waiting to be exploited to make your life more interest. Any job/challenge is interesting for a sufficiently short period of time. This isn't a downside.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
By Gertner, Jon
Indeed, the techniques forged at Bell Labs—that knack for apprehending a vexing problem, gathering ideas that might lead to a solution, and then pushing toward the development of a product that could be deployed on a massive scale—are still worth considering today, where we confront a host of challenges (information overloads, infectious disease, and climate change, among others) that seem very nearly intractable.