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Invention is a flower. Innovation is a weed.
-- Bob Metcalfe

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I learned one really sad fact from my career as a columnist: nobody changes their mind about anything. Ever. Once we form the opinion, we become evidence processors and we just collect all the evidence that supports our opinion and reject all the evidence that disputes it.
-- Bob Metcalfe

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I learned one really sad fact from my career as a columnist: nobody changes their mind about anything. Ever. Once we form the opinion, we become evidence processors and we just collect all the evidence that supports our opinion and reject all the evidence that disputes it.
-- Bob Metcalfe

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BobMetcalfe #Opinion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

I learned one really sad fact from my career as a columnist: nobody changes their mind about anything. Ever. Once we form the opinion, we become evidence processors and we just collect all the evidence that supports our opinion and reject all the evidence that disputes it.
-- Bob Metcalfe

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BobMetcalfe #Opinion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

#BobMetcalfe — together with the late #DavidBoggs at #Xerox's renowned #XeroxPARC — developed #Ethernet and set the stage for a #networking revolution. Yesterday, Metcalfe received the @ACM A.M. Turing Award, which is often pegged the "Nobel Prize of computing." https://www.engadget.com/bob-metcalfe-wins-turing-award-ethernet-195342698.html?src=rss #Internet #InternetHistory #ComputingHistory via @engadget

Congratulations. 🙂

"[Bob] Metcalfe was named the winner of the A.M. Turing Award, an annual prize considered the highest honor in computer science, for his part in ushering in our hyperconnected age. Fifty years ago, Metcalfe helped invent Ethernet, the local networking technology that links personal computers around the world to the global internet"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/bob-metcalfe-ethernet-pioneer-wins-turing-award-20230322/

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Turing Award Won by Co-Inventor of Ethernet Technology - In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/technology/turing-award-bob-metcalfe-ethernet.html #paloaltoresearchcenter(parc) #awardsdecorationsandhonors #computersandtheinternet #boggsdavid(1950-2022) #xeroxcorporation #turingaward #bobmetcalfe