"When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scient

"When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off."