“Why waste time doing experiments in the organization with technologies that are going to be out of date in 5 years or 10 years?”

—  Douglas Engelbart

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OojVnbrgF2A&feature=youtu.be&start=1704&end=1772

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American engineer and inventor 1925–2013

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