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What's the anecdote about buying a sailboat every year a reference to?
by et2o 7y ago
What's the anecdote about buying a sailboat every year a reference to?
- tangus 7y agoBurning it, actually. It's a legend about how Seymour Cray would design and build a sailboat every year only to burn it afterward, so he could design a better one, or something like that.
- redis_mlc 7y agoAlso, sailing in small wooden boats used to be a thing with STEM folks in the 50's and 60's. If you read any biographies of US physicists of the time, it seems they either all sailed, or had a close scientist friend that owned a boat.