^"The highest achievement in science is the rendering of facts
down to their essentials so effectively that some practical
invention becomes possible" Robert Laughlin, inspired by John
Bardeen (without whom we would not have our transistor radios,
then smaller and smaller computers, the Internet and all the
things that stemmed from the transistor - and cell phones, ATM
machines, trip to the moon, flat screen TVs, video games...)^
