Amen

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

I remember talking to the Head of Sony Research. Times were rough in Sony
and I asked how his funding went. He said it had grown in real terms. He
said (paraphasing) that it is when times are bad that you really need
research.


Luckily for the USA ( :-) ) and unluckily for the future of the world,  the
Japanese are learning our bad habits. Europe also seems to have it to a
lesser degree.


Dave


>WHEN TO DO RESEARCH. "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 doing, whereas there actually should be an inverse
>relationship;  when things are going worse you should do more research."
>(Apple computer scientist Alan Kay, Wired magazine, Jan.'94, p. 148)