‘Lots of people’ aren’t prodigies who start programming at age 13, automate their school’s class-scheduling system at 15, drop out of Harvard (after developing what would be the fastest sorting algorithm for 30 years) to start a company in a field (software for microcomputers) that most people at the time saw no future for, earn sufficient respect from Warren Buffett to get on the board of Berkshire Hathaway…
Granted, he was lucky to be born with the brainpower he had, but past that, he pretty much made his own luck.
Considering how close ‘Horne & Hardesty’ is to ‘Horn & Hardart’, I imagine you’re right.
The Horn & Hardart website has an entry dated June 8 announcing their intention to bring back automats. And there is at least one company, the Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, that uses an updated version of automat technology.
‘Lots of people’ aren’t prodigies who start programming at age 13, automate their school’s class-scheduling system at 15, drop out of Harvard (after developing what would be the fastest sorting algorithm for 30 years) to start a company in a field (software for microcomputers) that most people at the time saw no future for, earn sufficient respect from Warren Buffett to get on the board of Berkshire Hathaway…
Granted, he was lucky to be born with the brainpower he had, but past that, he pretty much made his own luck.
Audentes Fortuna juvat.