And Gladwell discovered that, yes, his world-beaters devoted years to learning and to practice: ten thousand hours, he says, is the rough amount of time it takes for talented people to become masters.
Instead, he said, he discovered that "yes, many companies are on Twitter, but many have questions about how and why to use it, and many are still not on Twitter".
The script was sent to us in its different stages, bristling with unfamiliar, curt instructions (POVs and INTs and EXTs and ECUs and VOS), and of course we looked at it and discovered that yes, some of the characters we'd created had disappeared; others we hadn't created had appeared.
He called the businesses on the other side of the Doué and discovered that, yes, they were selling an extraordinary number of contraceptive injections.
He worked all night, found a paper by scientists who had deliberately fused those very genes and discovered that, yes, the genetically altered T cells had their growth signals reversed.
The answers to each of these queries, we discovered, are yes … and no.
So I'm looking around and discover that yes, such a thing exists, but it's definitely a bit less high-tech than I thought.
Before the Stonewall Riots, gay bars were not only places to socialize, but to organize; over the decades, they've often functioned as the first place where men and women discover that yes, there are others like them.
It's been two years since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars' surface, and since then, six-wheeled, car-sized robot has already completed it's primary mission: discovering that yes, once upon a time, life as we know it was once fashionable on the Red Planet.
