Everywhere You Turn You See

He Was Blessed With An Unconventional Mind, Which Overcame His Conventional Middle-class Upbringing.

If You’ve Got A Dozen Pitchers, You Need To Speak 12 Different Languages.

Thirdly-but Not Lastly-there Was The Bias Toward What People Saw With Their Own Eyes, Or Thought They Had Seen. The Human Mind Played Tricks On Itself When It Relied Exclusively On What It Saw. There Was A Lot You Couldn't See When You Watched A Game

The Sheer Quantity Of Brain Power That Hurled Itself Voluntarily And Quixotically Into The Search For New Baseball Knowledge Was Either Exhilarating Or Depressing, Depending On How You Felt About Baseball. The Same Intellectual Resources Might Have Cured The Common Cold, Or Put A Man On Pluto.

At Sgi Board Meetings... Jim Clark's Face Would Get Red And He'd Start Shouting That An Investor And Board Member Had Cheated Him And His Engineers.