Blank suggests that youth brings on this attitude, but there are other ways. For instance, Dr. Fred Jelinek[1] (tragically, recently deceased) made huge innovat

Blank suggests that youth brings on this attitude, but there are other ways. For instance, Dr. Fred Jelinek[1] (tragically, recently deceased) made huge innovations in the field of speech recognition by diving into the field from a different direction and applying statistical methods where people thought the only path forward was phonetics and linguistics. It's the total revolution that underlies huge amounts of speech and language technology we take for granted today and was only possible by the introduction of a wildly unexpected idea to an impossible problem. A implied moral being to tackle problems you really shouldn't have any reason to, I suppose. It might be life changing. [1]http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/09/remembering-fred-jelinek.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/09/remembering-fred-...