> You're conflating all entrepeneurs with a very specific subset you're probably more familiar with.
Great! The string of Nobel Prizes from entrepreneurs will be a breath of fresh air. Do you think it will happen first in Physics, Chemistry or Medicine?
Hamming's essay isn't about inventing something no-one's come up with before.
Hamming's essay is about doing great work, solving important problems, and having significance.
He provides explicit definitions for what those things are in the essay, as I did in my response. As such, none of your flippant retorts make sense within the context of either the essay or my initial response to you.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Research and experimental development is formal work undertaken systematically to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications
> Hamming's essay is about doing great work, solving important problems, and having significance.
Hamming makes clear his remarks are about how to do "significant things," and he is using science as a microcosm to describe what that is, only because it is the microcosm he is most familiar with. See here:
"Why shouldn't you do significant things in this one life, however you define significant? I'm not going to define it - you know what I mean. I will talk mainly about science because that is what I have studied. But so far as I know, and I've been told by others, much of what I say applies to many fields. Outstanding work is characterized very much the same way in most fields, but I will confine myself to science."
> Intro: I have given a talk with this title many times, and it turns out from discussions after the talk I could have just as well have called it "You and Your Engineering Career," or even "You and Your Career." But I left the word "Research" in the title because that is what I have most studied"
> Entrepreneurs are not interested in starting programs that will yield results only after 10-20 years, and VCs have an even shorter attention span
I was responding to that (especially the assumption that entrepreneurs imply VC), not purely speculative bullshit about Nobel prize winners. At least keep track of your own arguments.
Great! The string of Nobel Prizes from entrepreneurs will be a breath of fresh air. Do you think it will happen first in Physics, Chemistry or Medicine?