Allen was certain he saw a lion.
One by one, Allen drew his fellow
researchers into his cubicle. “Do you
see it?” he asked them. He pointed at the graphics on his monitor
created by the computer model they were working with.
Most of his coworkers politely nodded
or mumbled bromides.
They did not see a lion. They saw only the convergence of lines and
trajectories prescribed by hard math.
Finally, Allen dragged his supervisor
before his monitor. “Do you see the
lion?” Allen asked.
The supervisor answered bluntly. “Our math doesn’t build lions. We are building a bridge to our future.”
“No,” insisted Allen, “we are building
antelope.”
--Mitchell Hegman
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