"Words don't matter"

The camera flashes, and he dodges, eyes downcast, as if searching for an escape route, even if everyone situated there was there because of him. 

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Despite that, he is not shy.

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Nobody can describe him as shy in any regards. He stands with the poise of someone who knows they’re important, someone who, I’m sure, will make everyone look at him the moment he glances out, arms stretched, a gesture for silence.

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And he does. “Why are you still interviewing me? There’s always more work to be done,” he tells me, as he unceremoniously stuffs his accolade into his bag, weaving through crowds to leave. “Get out of my way, I have a meeting at 5:30.”

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Take away the blunt way to put it, he is right. It is only with the dedication that he exemplifies that anything is achieved in the scientific world. If we stopped at any point in time, became satisfied, no progress would be made. “Curiosity,” he says, when asked about how he remains interested in the work that he does after all this time. “We have only just begun to understand the nuances of animal communication, and what can be achieved by learning more about them.” Minsky’s latest paper, Bird Speak and Linguistics Evolution details the few ways blackbirds communicate -- using stones, flying formation, and chirping, to name a few. How did we go from these primitive types of communication to the complex sentence structures we use on a daily basis, like how you are, without much complication reading this article now? We know that human language originated from Winnop

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