As an electrical engineering student at Stanford University in the late 1970s, L. Rafael Reif was working on not only his PhD but also learning a new language.
“I didn’t speak English. And I saw that it was easy to ignore somebody who doesn’t speak English well,” Reif recalled. To him, that meant speaking with conviction.
“If you have tremendous technical skills, but you cannot communicate, if you cannot persuade others to embrace that, it’s not going to go anywhere. Without the combination, you cannot persuade the powers-that-be to embrace whatever ideas you have.”
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