> Would you give tenure to someone who’s studying coffee stains? > I might. The paper has been cited more than 7,000 times, including by engineers developing i

> Would you give tenure to someone who’s studying coffee stains? > I might. The paper has been cited more than 7,000 times, including by engineers developing inkjet printers and nanotechnology. > Maybe now, but not back then. People did not like what I was doing, and they told me so. But, you know, I’ve had a lot of fun