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Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing

Bethe, whom Oppenheimer chose over Teller to head the Theoretical Division of the lab, was equally effusive in Oppenheimer’s praise. “He understood immediately when he heard anything, and fitted it into the general scheme of things and drew the right conclusions,” Bethe told Rhodes. “There was just nobody else in that laboratory who came even close

After a few years of working on the shop floor, Frank felt ready for more. He told Zobrist: “I’m sure we could be more innovative if we were to scout more actively for new machines, materials, and suppliers. I want to do that job.” Zobrist gave him an answer in keeping with his usual leadership style: “Go do it. I believe you have what it takes to

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Walter didn’t want to hurt his hands; he was protecting them. He wanted to be a magician.

‘Probably only up to a certain point,’ Terry Schmidt said then in response to a sort of confirmational question from the tall man with the kite-shaped face and a partly torn tag (two of the room’s six cursive nametags were ripped or sectional, the result of accidents during their removal from the adhesive backing) that read FORREST, a 40ish fellow

“I think it’s easy to think of people who are extremely rational as robotic,” he said, “but I really don’t think that applies to Sam. He was a really rare combination of hyper-rational and extremely kind.”