It Is A Curious Property Of Research

Politeness Is The Poison Of Collaboration.

I Believe Quite Simply That The Small Company Of The Future Will Be As Much A Research Organization As It Is A Manufacturing Company.

If You Sense A Deep Human Need, Then You Go Back To All The Basic Science. If There Is Some Missing, Then You Try To Do More Basic Science And Applied Science Until You Get It. So You Make The System To Fulfill That Need, Rather Than Starting The Other Way Around, Where You Have Something And Wonder What To Do With It.

In My Opinion, Neither Organisms Nor Organizations Evolve Slowly And Surely Into Something Better, But Drift Until Some Small Change Occurs Which Has Immediate And Overwhelming Significance. The Special Role Of The Human Being Is Not To Wait For These Favorable Accidents But Deliberately To Introduce The Small Change That Will Have Great Significance.

If This Is Preparation For Life, Where In The World, Where In The Relationship With Our Colleagues, Where In The Industrial Domain, Where Ever Again, Anywhere In Life, Is A Person Given This Curious Sequence Of Prepared Talks And Prepared Questions, Questions To Which The Answers Are Known?