Joshua Thorp wrote: > But more often than not, though a billion dollar company may be good > at well crafted design process, I would bet they find their best ideas > from those who do something for the sake of art as an amateur, or to > push forward the frontier of ideas as a scholar. > Or they get big enough they can have a research divisions and buy up most of these people! It's cheap insurance.. (MSR, Xerox PARC, IBM, etc.) > What we are talking around here is just as personal as race and > politics--where do you fall on the artist<--scientist-->engineer > spectrum. Let's all do our part to pollute that space with inconvenient blobs scattered about. :-)
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