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Are you sure your professor authorised you to quote him on calling one of the most powerful persons in his field: 'a very good salesman' on a public forum of so
by carlob 13y ago
Are you sure your professor authorised you to quote him on calling one of the most powerful persons in his field: 'a very good salesman' on a public forum of sorts?
- gajomi 13y agoThis particular professor, as far as I am aware, would probably not be considered as active in QFT. He has been working on turbulence and chaos recent (albeit, employing techniques from field theory). At any rate, I don't really see the quip as taking a knock on these guys (he is known for his witty banter). This is really good salesmanship and the media are having a filed day with it.
- carlob 13y agoJust checking, sometimes people banter, but they don't want to see such banter spread in print. FWIW I have met Arkani-Hamed and he didn't strike me for his salesmanship.
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- cwp 13y agoYou don't need authorization to quote someone.
- scythe 13y agoThere is an archive of his quotes related to various topics: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mason/wisdom/predrag.txt http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mason/wisdom/predrag.txt As he has not objected to this in the ten or so years it's been around, I doubt he'd object to my quoting him either. I thought what he said was illustrative.