¶ Divide and Conquer Sequence
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(I was made an honorary fellow of Oxford University about three years ago. And I had to give my first lecture there. And I said that, and I got a very large applause, I’ll tell you. The students were in agreement.)
"Now I think this is all fairly evident… We could have a man who was really a very bright professor, but he was really not sticking enough and the king was bothered about him. So he said, Mister, you’re getting off base a little over there. I’m going to really tie you up. I want to really tie you up: I’m going to give you tenure. Now, how do you like that! Don’t do anything for anybody else. You’re set for life! Nobody can ever take it away from you. But I want you to be an absolutely pure scientist. None of that nonsense about applied science. Pure scientist. You just lay eggs and I’ll take them away from you… Today, this is just the way our University is…
“But now we have for the first time in history a condition where everybody is literate. Yesterday was just the king, who was mildly literate. And he had a literate Grand Vizier, and nobody else had to do anything but just be a librarian or use”
