A couple relevant quotes from the justly famous talk "You and Your Research", by Richard Hamming: "If you chose to assert your ego in any number of ways, ``I a

A couple relevant quotes from the justly famous talk "You and Your Research", by Richard Hamming: "If you chose to assert your ego in any number of ways, ``I am going to do it my way,'' you pay a small steady price throughout the whole of your professional career. And this, over a whole lifetime, adds up to an enormous amount of needless trouble." "I am not saying you shouldn't make gestures of reform. I am saying that my study of able people is that they don't get themselves committed to that kind of warfare. They play it a little bit and drop it and get on with their work. " http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html