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“Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement.”

A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, pp. 165–166 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA165 <br class="br">Kontext: Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.

“I could trace own EST brainwave to a flight back from a trip to Japan. But, of course, great ideas are often simultaneously conceived by several people who have responded in a similar way to the climate of thinking, and it can be hard to pin down when and precisely how a flash of inspiration is born. Kaplan had taught me that good ideas are a dime of dozen for a smart person, and the only thing that distinguishes good from great is in how an idea is executed—how it becomes reality. Scientific history is littered with stories of one person having an idea but not following through on it only to see another have a similar inspiration and then prove it to be valid.”

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A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, p. 129 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA129

“Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.”

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"The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins" (36:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E25jgPgmzk#t=36m30s

“I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.”

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San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/10/DD861808G2.DTL