However, let me observe in all honesty to the department head, it was remarks by him which made me realize it was not the number of operations done that mattered, it was, as it were, the number of micro-Nobel prizes I computed that mattered. Thus the motto of a book I published in 1961: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. A good friend of mine revised it to: The purpose of computing numbers is not yet in sight.
