Talk:Gernot M. R. Winkler

missing <ref> of final quote

I (a Briton) first encountered this Austrian-American character via a sign on the desk of a Italian colleague while working out ground-station statistics at ESOC in Germany. He got it from a Spanish lady who was calibrating a French-made interferometer based at ESTEC in Holland. But since time-calibration and interferometry are intimately linked, she may well have had some contact with Gernot, but who knows? All this happened long ago in the 1970s.

In the early 21st century, having retired to Spain, this half-remembered quote seemed appropriate, but I could find nothing anywhere to verify my memory, but several reliable sources about this notable genius.

So I created this article from those semi-official sources and included this elusive quote to the best of my recollection. The quote thus has no "provenance" and may be somewhat inaccurate - perhaps we may have it retained "on the balance of probability" as it is rather more likely than not? Then, maybe someone, in the future may be able to fix it more precisely? Timpo (talk) 12:42, 7 March 2018 (UTC)