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If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn’t stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else’s discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people – statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.

A multidisciplinary study group … estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.