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IP: Jim Clark Astride Silicon Valley
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 09:23:52 -0500
From: "David L. Gurgel" <dgurgel () energyfor com> To: "'Dave Farber'" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Jim Clark Astride Silicon Valley Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:47:11 -0500 Nothing is more enjoyable to the people in the business than a good tale about one of the notables. Michael Lewis' profile of Jim Clark, "The New New Thing," is featured in today's print and website NY Times Book Review, http://www.nytimes.com/books/home/ . The Times reviewer, Kurt Andersen, goes so far as to claim, "The book tells the story of the engineer and entrepreneur Jim Clark, reported and written as Clark continued to bestride and transform Silicon Valley -- and by extension the American economy. Lewis does not say, but nonetheless proves, that the 55-year-old Clark, not Gates or Jobs or anyone else, is the grandest figure of that realm -- at least as accomplished and more interesting, inspiring and likable than his younger peers." My goodness! Many would quarrel with a ballot limited to Gates, Jobs, and Clark. The pick of Clark, as noted, is Andersen's, not Lewis'.
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