Handwritten fax message from Gilead Sciences' founder Dr Michael L Riordan to honor J-P, one of Gilead's first research scientists.

3. Honoring J-P
J-P is a lot tougher than she seems. Donʼt let the soft voice fool you. She gave me
tough, good advice in those early days. Data was key then as now, and she generated
a lot of our first experimental data. Often we didnʼt like the answers that nature
gave us. Mother Nature. Mother J-P. While generating data she also generated one
of Gileadʼs first newborns, and humbled all our notions of a long day. Thatʼs when I
took efficiency lessons from her, and saw that steadiness of motherhood like hers is
probably what keeps the world from flying apart. Last year J-P told me thereʼs a
Chinese saying that life begins at 40. Please wish her good fortune in her new post
and tell her weʼll have to compare notes at 60.
-- Michael Riordan
表彰J-P
J-P遠比她看起來的模樣來的強硬，別讓她柔和的聲音愚弄了你。在早期的
歲月裡，她給了我許多嚴格、完善的建議。由過往至今，資訊數據一直是關
鍵的根本，而她，為我們研發出許許多多初期的實驗資訊數據。有時我們不
喜歡大自然給予我們的答案。大自然之母啊，母親J-P。而在發展資訊數據
的同時，她也產下了Gilead的第一個新生兒，且仍謙卑地廣納我們的各種概
念主張，而長時間的努力工作。在這同時，我從她身上學習到效率，且看見
她那母親般的穩健，使得這世界不至於分崩離析。 去年J-P告訴我，有一個
中國人的諺語說，人的生命始於四十。請祝福她在新的職務崗位能有好運，
且告訴她我們將在六十歲時好好磋摩比較一番。
-- Michael Riordan
1998