Newsweek International, June 30th, 2003
The legend of the lone inventor is at least as old as Leonardo da Vinci with his flying machines and Thomas Edison with his light bulb and cinema. Even in a globalized world of regulatory bureaus and instant mergers, the individual vision survives. Inventors persist because bureaucracies create their own weaknesses. Technology is inherently unstable. It cannot be fully fixed, rationalized and regulated without choking off its own vitality. An invention that is fully planned is not "invented" at all. Improvements can be planned, but inventions cannot. They must be born, and then raised.
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