Funny how you never see someone describe their life's work as "no big deal." Even when they describe it in catastrophic terms - the hubris in us always wants to

Funny how you never see someone describe their life's work as "no big deal." Even when they describe it in catastrophic terms - the hubris in us always wants to imagine our work is more important than perhaps it is. "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde Not to say that Hinton didn't have an impact 10 - 15 years ago, but it was arguably inevitable that we'd be here with or without him as the problem was resource constrained more than fundamentally intractable.