There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES then we want to become pioneers not in the technology but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
But when we started our product portfolio we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.
The point of that is if you look at Walgreen's history they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
There are no such things as applied sciences only applications of science.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application rather than of means that men fail to succeed.
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.