Kim first recognized Japan's big role in the weapons business while digging through trade journals and footnotes.

FORBES: Japan Weapons, Inc.

Footnotes and references in scientific papers are linked so it takes only seconds to see a paper's entire intellectual backup.

FORBES: International

Google's word processing software isn't going to satisfy users working on complex documents, rich with footnotes or mathematical notations.

FORBES: Office Killers

All footnotes and references in scientific papers are linked, so it takes only seconds to call up a paper's entire intellectual backup.

FORBES: Double Dutch No Longer

Given Kidd's illustrious career, though, those end-of-career failures will amount to nothing more than footnotes.

WSJ: Jason Kidd, New York Knicks: Jason Kidd Retires