Upmodded for "I think the key in science is to do something that is interesting and pleasurable in both the long and short term." I discovered that this (the

Upmodded for "I think the key in science is to do something that is interesting and pleasurable in both the long and short term." I discovered that this (the hard way, after a decade buildng enterprise software) is true for software dev too. Now I do algorithm intensive work and there's more to do than I have time in this lifetime to do.