"Technical innovations regularly take decades to spread. Volkswagen started building cars with unibodies in the 1930s. By the 1980s, practically all new cars were designed that way. Was it simply that the vast majority of car designers were boneheads for 40 years? Yep, though I think "conservative" is the preferred euphemism." -- Paul Graham, Re: Revenge of the Nerds
(It's Paul Graham week in my Quote-of-the-Day file.)
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