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"In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company i..." — Alan Kay
In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
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