A favorite quote of mine from Lazarides goes something along the lines of (major paraphrase here)
Questioner: What was the secret to Blackberry's success? Lazarides: I built my office across the street from the gold mine. Questioner: What? Lazarides: We built our office across the street from the University of Waterloo and the students basically had to walk around our offices to get anywhere.
Seems like a waste of money to me. Welfare for a bunch of second rate theorists who couldn't hack it in string theory. At least that's what Lubos told me.
I see you didn't take any pictures of the foosball table... Just let me know if you want to play a quick game in the morning.
ReplyDeletePretty cool. I wish someone in the US had the same initiative.
ReplyDeleteA favorite quote of mine from Lazarides goes something along the lines of (major paraphrase here)
ReplyDeleteQuestioner: What was the secret to Blackberry's success?
Lazarides: I built my office across the street from the gold mine.
Questioner: What?
Lazarides: We built our office across the street from the University of Waterloo and the students basically had to walk around our offices to get anywhere.
Seems like a waste of money to me. Welfare for a bunch of second rate theorists who couldn't hack it in string theory. At least that's what Lubos told me.
ReplyDeleteThere are string theorists at Perimeter.
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