By Karen A. Frenkel
Communications of the ACM,
October 1987,
Vol. 30 No. 10, Pages 824-828
10.1145/30408.30414
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"Most of the work I've done has been done to break things into existence that didn't exist before. . . . In a sense, my whole career's been about building organizations that didn't exist before, creating processes to do things that have never been done before, and solving technical problems that hadn't been solved before. The work I did at MIT was that way as well. There was no real foundation to build on, and I had to make it up as I went along. That's characterized, if not my whole career, at least the parts of my career that I consider the most rewarding."
"Pioneers are also the people that get arrows shot through them. That's the downside, and I've had my share of arrows pulled out of my hide."
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