[dugmartin]

One of my favorite memories from thirty years ago in college was having small group breakfast with a few other students through the honor's program with Leon Lederman, the Nobel winning physicist that was the then Director of Fermilab. He had a lot of great stories about how big government funded research worked and was very charismatic.

I toured Fermilab later in college while we where near there for an ACM programming competition. The one thing I remember from the tour was a big red button labeled "Start" next to some huge experiment. The tour guide saw us looking at it and said something like "You don't want to touch that". I've often wondered if that was real or just a prop they used for tours.

Btw, I'll never forget what Leon said when asked by a physics student about what the most important thing to learn or study as an undergrad. He said, "learn to write".