# Alan Kay at UCL asdad asdasd # John Seely Brown's talk at USC - How do you get promoted at PARC? - Not by papers but one of the ironies is that the papers that came out of PARC were fantastic papers: from an impact measurement, they were better than Harvard and jkust behin Princeton’s IAS. - What this means is that psycholog- ically something strange happens: you no longer have an excuse for failure # Bob Metcalfe > “Xerox created this perfect environment,” recalled Bob Metcalfe, who worked there through much of the nineteen-seventies, before leaving to found the networking company 3Com. “There wasn’t any hierarchy. We built out our own tools. When we needed to publish papers, we built a printer. When we needed to edit the papers, we built a computer. When we needed to connect computers, we figured out how to connect them. We had big budgets. Unlike many of our brethren, we didn’t have to teach. We could just research. It was heaven.” # Gladwell on PARC > [[Gary Starkweather]], and his compatriots at Xerox _PARC_, weren’t the source of disciplined strategic insights. They were wild geysers of creative energy. [[9c1a Xerox’s Mouse and Jobs requirements]]