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Purvis looked at him as though seeing something that had no right to be around in a world that had invented penicillin.
‘But weren’t you rather younger in those days?’ asked Louis gently. ‘That,’ I said with great dignity, ‘is as good a reason as any for going.’
Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT—to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good—and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.
We’ll just have to say to the dinosaurs: “Move over a bit—here comes Homo sap!” And the transister shall inherit the earth.’
‘“I think,” he said softly, “that you physicists are playing with your toys again. And very big ones, this time.” ‘“I’m afraid you’re right,” I answered.
‘Joe,’ he said, ‘why the devil should anyone want me to build a guided rocket that can fit inside a football?’
I’m—ah—making some last-minute adjustments to improve the efficiency of the system.’ And that, of course, was the truth; for I was indeed hoping to raise the efficiency of the system from its present value of exactly zero.
