比如，一天，我到我的老板Bode那里，对他说：“为什么你要当这个部门的头呢？为什么你不去当一名大科学家呢？” 他说：“Hamming， 我有远见，知道贝尔实验室的数学部分要怎样，如果要让这个“远见”得到共识，我就得当上部门的头。”
For instance, I went to my boss, Bode, one day and said, "Why did you ever become department head? Why didn't you just be a good scientist?" He said, "Hamming, I had a vision of what mathematics should be in Bell Laboratories. And I saw if that vision was going to be realized, I had to make it happen; I had to be department head."
本来只想着翻译完《You and Your Research》的正文部分，发现观众问答部分也处处是亮点，整个计划变得更庞大了……