This kind of stuff always gets me thinking a lot. It is very mysterious how some companies can spend such enormous amounts on research and still seem to get ver

This kind of stuff always gets me thinking a lot. It is very mysterious how some companies can spend such enormous amounts on research and still seem to get very few innovative products in return. Gets you really thinking about, what exactly is the nature of innovation and research? Our society as a whole is inherently focused on quantity over quality when it comes to something like research which so obviously is about quality. Science is getting measures as number of patents issues, amount of GDP spent on research etc. And these things becomes goals and targets by themselves. Nobody seems to stop and ask whether quality research and discovery is actually happening or whether we are getting patents for the right kind of things. This quantification and reducing everything into a number is a disease which I think is destroying much of what is good about our society.