My father met several times Schockley in the 50-1960
He was a semi conductor engineer at Thomson-CSF in France (now ST Microelectronics). He made the first french diodes and transistors in the late 1950 in Grenoble.
Thomson-CSF had a patent agreement with Bell Labs to make transistors.
Part of the agreement was an annual consulting session with Schockley to exchange about manufacturing diodes and transistors. My father never spoke about Schockley's grumpiness.
Voltaire : The universe embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
And Voltaire did not know about all the maths behind matter and universe, the computer science behind DNA, the complexity of biochemistry...
To all the engineers here : work about causality, and the power of randmoness, be curious, do not take for granted evolution through randmoness, it makes no sense especially for an engineer who knows how codes work.
The idea must precede the code, and the right code can act upon the matter. The random code without idea has absolutely no chance to do anything valuable.
