"The saga of the human genome project proves that publicly financed science is extremely effective because it is so intensely competitive. The project's success also refutes the widespread notion that only private industry is capable of carrying out large-scale research."
http://mondediplo.com/2002/12/15genome
That's funny. I thought there was a widespread notion that the private sector cannot do significant basic research.
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
