i totally agree ... if larry page hadn't been in a Ph.D. program, he would've likely not gotten exposed to that sort of research, especially because back in the

i totally agree ... if larry page hadn't been in a Ph.D. program, he would've likely not gotten exposed to that sort of research, especially because back in the early 1990's, it was much harder for people to get access to or even knowledge about research papers (you couldn't just, ummm, Google for them!)