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team would load up the car and go home,” says Gary Nelson, who runs Nascar’s research and development center.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
The most interesting thing about Bill Bradley was not just that he was a great basketball player, but that he succeeded so amply in other things that he was doing at the same time, reached a more promising level of attainment, and, in the end, put basketball aside because he had something better to do.
John McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
Despite having coached the Danny Manning–led Kansas Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title, and despite having coached the Allen Iverson–led Philadelphia 76ers to the 2001 NBA Finals, the job Larry Brown was doing with the Pistons was his most remarkable work in a 32-year sideline career. Detroit’s roster featured zero future Hall of Famers, and zero play
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he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
monozukuri—literally, “thing making.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
But the professors understood that behind the goofiness was a formidable mathematical mind.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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