And the other was, I always had this feeling that he backed out because he was afraid of failure. I think he had very little reason to be afraid of failure, but there was always that chance. And it’s funny, because, you know, we worked on uncertainty, on chance, averaging, random numbers inserted into otherwise identical scenarios played out ten thousand times, on trying to extract some kind of certainty from randomness, and it’s interesting actually that what I think he was always afraid of was—chance! Of not knowing whether he could succeed. He just did not want to take that risk. Most
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