zador-anthony@cs.yale.edu (Tony Zador) (12/06/90)
"Now, Martin, you must hasten and publish your results. Get right to it. In fact you should have done it before this. Throw your material together as rapidly as pos- sible and send a note in to the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, to be published in their next proceedings." "But I'm not ready to publish! I want to have every loophole plugged up before I announce anything whatever!" "Nonsense! That attitude is old-fashioned. This is no longer an age of parochial- ism but of competition, in art and science just as much as in commerce--co-opera- tion with your own group, but with those outside it, competition to the death! Plug up the holes thoroughly, later, but we can't have somebody else stealing a march on us. Remember you have your name to make. The way to make it is by working with me--toward the greatest good for the greatest number." from Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1924).