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).