With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life’s work was probably a mistake. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school’s DEC mainframe in the language Basic. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. Eric Allin Cornell Read Quote
