It was one of my final classes, a seminar on entrepreneurship. Sooo, Dad, you remember that Crazy Idea I had at Stanford…? I’d rehearsed my spiel, in my head, over and over, especially the opening. I set a straight-backed chair beside him and gave a wan smile and waited for the next commercial. Every episode began with Red singing: Ho ho, hee hee… strange things are happening. I can still tilt back my head and close my eyes and hear the sound of the audience laughing, the tinny theme songs of his favorite shows, Wagon Train and Rawhide. He was relaxed then, well fed, stretched out in his vinyl recliner in the TV nook. When I broached the subject with my father, when I worked up the nerve to speak to him about my Crazy Idea, I made sure it was in the early evening.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass 1962 If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.
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