Dental Mission Quotes

From what I understand, you were with Jason Stern a whole three minutes before everything went sideways. You were supposed to lay low and keep an eye out for trouble, not make a ruckus and spend the whole afternoon in the lockup!” It suddenly occurred to me that, although I’d been on several missions with Cyrus Hale, I hadn’t spent more than thirty seconds alone with him. Cyrus was as curmudgeonly as anyone I’d ever met, but I’d either had Erica around to calm him—or Alexander to draw his disdain. Now that it was only the two of us, the ride back to school promised to be as much fun as dental surgery.

In the summer of 1958, Jack Kilby, a talented engineer at Texas Instruments, embarked on a one-man mission to reliably produce transistorized components at scale. He had joined Texas Instruments in May and hadn’t earned many vacation days, so instead of taking August off like the rest of his colleagues, he researched the problem. He hit upon his solution while reading about a failed dental appliance that used sand to blast away decayed teeth.