Graduation Advice

War on Terror Dominates Talks Given at Graduations
By SAM DILLON NY TImes June 12, 2005

Smart folks concocted a computer simulation of gridlock to determine how many cars should be taken off the road to turn a completely jammed and stilled highway into a free-flowing one. The results were startling. Four cars needed to be removed ... four cars out of each one hundred. ... Call it the Power of Four. ... If merely four people out of a hundred can make gridlock go away by choosing not to use their car, imagine the other changes that can be wrought just by four of us out of a hundred. Take a hundred musicians in a depressed port city in Northern England, choose John, Paul, George and Ringo and you have "Hey Jude." Take a hundred computer geeks in Redmond, Wash., send 96 of them home and the remainder is called Microsoft.

Tom Hanks, Actor - Vassar College