The last one is golden "Working with great people is one of the best parts of life".
It's unthinkable nowadays to work in the old AT&T/Bell lab environment during the invention and early works of transistor, Unix/C, fiber/laser, CCD, DSP, etc. For the glimpse of the wonderful environment working there check out Richard Hamming's book "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" since he was working there when most of the inventions happened.
It's unthinkable nowadays to work in the old AT&T/Bell lab environment during the invention and early works of transistor, Unix/C, fiber/laser, CCD, DSP, etc. For the glimpse of the wonderful environment working there check out Richard Hamming's book "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" since he was working there when most of the inventions happened.