Peter Norvig has too much time on his hands! Although the following is sadly too personally familiar "The original proposal had several of the classic grant a

Peter Norvig has too much time on his hands! Although the following is sadly too personally familiar "The original proposal had several of the classic grant application mistakes. It was too ambitious, the investigators had few recent papers, they needed a more senior collaborator, and there was no preliminary data to demonstrate feasibility. In addition, it is well known that one does not simply walk into Mordor."