IP: Jim Clark Astride Silicon Valley

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "David L. Gurgel" <dgurgel () energyfor com>
> To: "'Dave Farber'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Jim Clark Astride Silicon Valley
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:47:11 -0500
>
> Nothing is more enjoyable to the people in the business than a good tale
> about one of the notables. Michael Lewis' profile of Jim Clark, "The New
> New Thing," is featured in today's print and website NY Times Book
> Review, http://www.nytimes.com/books/home/ .
>
> The Times reviewer, Kurt Andersen, goes so far as to claim, "The book
> tells the story of the engineer and entrepreneur Jim Clark, reported and
> written as Clark continued to bestride and transform Silicon Valley --
> and by extension the American economy. Lewis does not say, but
> nonetheless proves, that the 55-year-old Clark, not Gates or Jobs or
> anyone else, is the grandest figure of that realm -- at least as
> accomplished and more interesting, inspiring and likable than his
> younger peers."
> My goodness! Many would quarrel with a ballot limited to Gates, Jobs,
> and Clark. The pick of Clark, as noted, is Andersen's, not Lewis'.