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Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great
scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years
with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One
day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered
that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was
a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into
Bode's office and said, "How can anybody my age know as
much as John Tukey does?" He leaned back in his chair,
put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said,
"You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know
if you worked as hard as he did that many years." I simply
slunk out of the office!
"You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming.http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
If you had included contact details in your HN profile I could also have sent this to you directly.
My google-fu has failed me on this one. DOes that ring a bell for anyone and could you provide a link or a search term please?