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+<h1>Quotes about Bill Wattenburg</h1>
+
+<p>From a well-known scientist who once worked with Wattenburg:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>If anyone has spent $10 or $20 million on a difficult technical problem and not
+found a solution, they probably should have asked Bill Wattenburg First.</q></blockquote>
+
+
+<p class=pagebreak>Said to Bill by a woman who pulled up next to his Mercedes 280SL in traffic (his licence
+plate read “PILL”):</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>Hey, thanks for reminding me!</q>—<i>SF Chronicle, Aug. 16,
+1974, p. 25, in Herb Caen’s column.</i></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">From a colleague at the Nevada nuclear weapons test site:</p>
+
+<blockquote><p><q>He was always looking for the simple solution that everyone else had
+ overlooked. His favorite saying was: <q>A smart cowboy just wouldn’t work
+ this hard to make things so goddamn difficult.</q> Then he would throw up his
+ hands and go off to tease the ladies in some local bar down the highway
+ while the rest of us were working our butts off.</q></p>
+ <p><q>You are always wondering when he is going to make a fool out of
+ you, and do it in some simple way or with some crazy experiment that
+ forces you to stand and applaud your own ignorance.</q></p>
+ <p><q>But if you want to know what I really think of him, I’ll tell
+ you. If I am ever trapped in a spaceship and everyone says it is hopeless,
+ I hope he is still around, and near a telephone…</q></p></blockquote>
+
+<p class="pagebreak">From a U.S. Forest Service Supervisor in Plumas County, Calif.:</p>
+
+<blockquote><q>There are not many old pros like him left anymore who can chase a forest fire on
+a bulldozer in the night over mountains so rugged that you can’t walk on them. I mean fire crews
+won’t go where he takes a bulldozer. This guy attacks a fire just like it was trying to kill his
+kids. We called him once when he was on the radio in San Francisco—we just needed his equipment
+on the fire. He was on the fire <i>himself</i> four hours later.</q></blockquote>
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