it's nice to start the day by reading a true humanized story | thanks to short notes!

the hook at short notes is that schoonschip

.. is possibly the first software ever that helped its author (Martinus J.G. Veltman) win the Nobel Prize.

i don't know, but as other get the turing price and not the nobel one i guess that can be right. you need to be a physicist or maybe biologist dealing with big databases to be counted in there.

reading veltman's autobiography is a nice read and mayeb a hint for al those who are to scared to talk humanly.

i acquired my knowledge of electronics from the local plumber ... My only measuring instrument was my right index finger. If I touched a sensitive connection the radio would produce a hum. If a connection had the correct high voltage (about 200 V) I would get a shock. Commercially I was a failure, as I would usually not dare to ask money for my services ...

I then asked him if he could give me some advice, to which he answered: "don't make mistakes". I thought this funny, and started to laugh, but that was not appreciated by Lee, who took some moments to teach me the seriousness of this enterprise. Well, even if in the making of computer programs the not making of errors is usually the main problem, I still feel that I did not really need that advice! ...

In the meantime, just prior to going to the US, our son Hugo was born. He now runs a restaurant called Solstice in Los Angeles. If I want a really good dinner that is where I go. I hope the reader gets the hint. | martinus j.g. veltman, the nobel prize in physics 1999, autobiography