Monday, April 1, 2013

Opening paragraphs...........

In the spring of 1987, not long after celebrating by seventy-third birthday, I took my helicopter out to follow the scenes of my childhood.  I went by myself, the way I often fly when there is something I want to see.  Helicopters are noisy and sometimes hard to handle, but they can take you exactly where you feel like going.  You can land on a flat rock only ten feet by ten feet far out in the sea, or tuck into a garden behind the house of a friend.  On that spring day I wanted to learn what remained of the world in which I was raised.
-Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Father Son & Co:  My Life at IBM and Beyond

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