— Steve Gano, Director for Education and Digital Media
American Museum of Natural History

You showed up at the Smithsonian through a weird set of connections somehow related to Madison and a professor, and years in a foreign land, standing in front of me beaming with extraordinary intelligence, a good nature, honesty, and commitment to the strange job that combined a yet-to-be-born genre of interactive multimedia, along with television documentaries, dramas, and a curriculum on the intectual history of the 20th century all bound together in a revolving three-dimensional ball and stick molecule that had floated in the mind of a narcisistic genius under whose spelled we had all fallen. Tom deBoor …. your work was amazing ….. but your true mission in this episode was to fall in love with your female twin whose aforementioned qualities more than matched yours, and whose ironic sense of humor and capacity for human caring softened the hard-driving male ego-energy that pervaded the entire endeavor. Tom deBoor….. your formidable intellectual capacities and personal qualities could find their calling in many pursuits. (What in the hell have you been doing for the past twenty years!) You were missing from my life until the invitation to write this arrived out of the blue! I dearly appreciated your presence in my life and I continue to enjoy my memories of your work and our time together. I hope we’ll share a few more moments before transmigrating on to our next incarnations!

Congratulations for hanging around to enjoy this moment with your wonderful wife and son!

— Ed Bastian
Former Founding Director of Smithsonian Project Discovery
President, Spiritual Paths