Rich Socher had this to say about the transition to neural networks: "Chris Manning also, to his credit – when I came to him and I had all these ideas from the computer vision world and neural networks, I still remember that meeting – he said, "Look, I don't know anything about neural networks right now either, but I'm willing to learn, and we'll get through it together." And obviously he knew everything there is about NLP in general." Adapt or die.