“You don't just become a nuclear-weapons designer overnight…I actually took a tour of the Twitter site about three weeks ago. I'm in the Bay Area and it is a different universe, I will say. You know, we are never going to offer our people free lunches, and we're never going to be able to offer, you know, or a massage room, which is what they had.”
— Penrose "Parney" Albright, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, explaining to Congress earlier this week some of the challenges associated with keeping his highly-skilled workers satisfied. “We still,” he added, “remain a destination for the very best and brightest in this country.”
