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Children Want The Challenge Of Difficult Tasks - Just Look How Much Better They Are Than Their Parents On A Computer.

If You Didn't Have Patents, No One Would Bother To Spend Money On Research And Development. But With Patents, If Someone Has A Good Idea And A Competitor Can't Copy It, Then That Competitor Will Have To Think Of Their Own Way Of Doing It. So Then, Instead Of Just One Innovator, You Have Two Or Three People Trying To Do Something In A New Way.

Hire Inexperience. This Year We Plan To Hire 200 Engineers - Half Of Whom Are Recent Grads. Young People Are Not Burdened By Years Of Experience. They Haven't Learned - Or Been Told - What Is Right Or Wrong. With Engineering, There Is No Tried And Tested Path. You Try, And Fail, And Fix, And Fail Again.

Anyone Developing New Products And New Technology Needs One Characteristic Above All Else: Hope.

There Is No Such Thing As A Quantum Leap. There Is Only Dogged Persistence - And In The End You Make It Look Like A Quantum Leap.