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“Franklin Pope-Don’t let him agitate you. This is how he is. Before he was a wizard, I let him live in my basement. My wife wouldn’t have him at the table with us unless he cleaned himself. And, boy, given the ultimatum, the man ate alone.
George Westinghouse-How does he work?
Franklin Pope-You want to know his secret? He engineers his own reality, and he looks for needles in haystacks.
George Westinghouse-But how does he know there’s a needle in the hay to begin with?
Franklin Pope-He doesn’t. Neither do you. But he’s so determined not to be the second person to find it, that he’ll go stalk by stalk on a what-do-you-know. I will say one good thing about him. He could be the richest man on earth, but he doesn’t give a damn about money.”
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