TITLE: Pirates and Tenure
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: May 17, 2013  3:26 PM
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I recently read
<A HREF="http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/11/22/the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the-artist-who-gave-computing-a-human-face/">
   The Sketchbook of Susan Kare</A>,
"the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face", which referred to
the Apple legend of
<A HREF="http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Pirate_Flag.txt">
   the Pirate Flag</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
[Kare's] skull-and-crossbones design would come in handy when Jobs
issued one of his infamous motivational koans to the Mac team:
"It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy."
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

For some reason, that line brought to mind a favorite saying of one
of my friends, Sid Kitchel:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
Real men don't accept tenure.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

If by some chance they do accept tenure, they should at least never
move into administration, even temporarily.  It's a bad perch from
which to be a pirate.
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