ATDTDA (1): Professor Gibbs (p. 29: 31)

Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Thu Feb 1 05:13:21 CST 2007


Tore:

> His forehead does seem kind of low for a genius - nothing like 
> the great, domed forehead of James Clerk  Maxwell:

Nahh -- with Lombroso you're stuck in the old industrial-tech "more is
better" model... which can get embarrasssing when it turns out Neanderthal
brain volume may have averaged *more* than ours.

Think information technology, man! Less is more! Think sleek Nokias, slim
laptops, omnifunctional iPhones! Behind ol' Willard's eyes there's
ultra-dense RAM ticking through the vector calculations at a fiercely
overclocked 5 GHz.





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