Recently I’ve been in Harvard to listen to an Edward Tufte’s talk. Edward Tufte is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science, and Senior Critic in the School of Art at Yale (do you think it is enough?). I am writing here some quotes from the speech:

• I spent many years of my life willing to be a professor but I was wondering what the hell of professor I wanted to be
• every time I had the feeling that in the place I was working in I wasn’t able anymore to learn I moved
• probably I took more from other people than what I gave them
• if you want to play you have to play with the big guys, to play small doesn’t make any sense

All this made me thoughtful…

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