“I’m not optimistic because our problems are small…”
Why build a clock that lasts for 10,000 years? Because the future is always getting shorter and shorter.
“Everybody was doing things faster and faster. I needed to slow down, stretch out, and think on a different time scale.
Any engineer wants to build something that lasts. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to build. From the beginning I wanted to make a little model of the clock, and then make a bigger one and a bigger one. I finally realized the clock couldn’t go in a building—it had to be in a mountain.
I’m very optimistic about the future. I’m not optimistic because our problems are small … I’m optimistic because our capacity to deal with problems is great.”
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