Those Who Succeed

In his 1993 book, Memories of Summer, Roger Kahn told of a speech given by Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey to students at Brooklyn Technical High School during World War II: “Undoubtedly, scientists will lead the years to come — young men very much like yourselves, indeed perhaps your very selves, will be the

Directly in Front of Me

In his 1999 essay, In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Neal Stephenson describes a moment on Main Street USA in Disney World’s Magic Kingdom: “Directly in front of me was a man with a camcorder. It was one of the new breed of camcorders where instead of peering through a viewfinder you gaze at