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ple with artistic talent and those who just do the job as a job. You've got to really love the job to do it well. I was talking to a guy who runs the service bureau here in Sydney a few months ago and he said, "I've tried to retire, but I just love the job so much, I just keep doing it." I feel that way too. I just keep going because I like doing what I do. If you don't like doing what you do, then you don't do it properly. You can't teach that. Pfeil: I think it's interesting that advertising agencies for many different products will have an image of a PC board or PCB routing in the background. I don't know if you've noticed that. It's not really a printed circuit board design, it's the artist's rendition of what a printed circuit board looks like, and oen you'll see multiple traces running through an area and then they all connect at one tab somewhere, or they'll connect to each other, or there will be traces that start and end just in space. e art attrac- tion is that you see the parallel lines running through a maze of pads and it just kind of looks cool. Because of that, they see it as art, and they use it as a background for their advertis- ing campaigns. Brooks: Actually, my introduction to art hap- pened later. I designed printed circuit boards a long time before I discovered art. I don't know too many people who were artist types that became printed circuit board designers. I know technical people with a lot of le-brain activity. But I think the right-brain part of it helps with spatial relationships between things and being able to see patterns. More like puzzle solving than art. For example, look at a memory circuit; we used to place them in a such a way that you could get a bus going through the whole mem- ory circuit, and it was very compact. It was recognizing those patterns, instead of some- body sitting all day, running a router, and get- ting a bunch of jobs. Aer the soware was smart enough to recognize that too, then we