From an article I was just reading on Wired about HP's new memristor technology: “It’s sad to say, but the science and technology are the easy part,” Williams

From an article I was just reading on Wired about HP's new memristor technology: “It’s sad to say, but the science and technology are the easy part,” Williams said at the recent conference. “Development costs at least 10 times as much as research, and commercialization costs 10 times as much as development. So in the end, research — which we think is the most important part — is only 1 percent of the effort.” "Most important"? That contradicts the rest of what he said in the very same quote! Every link in the chain from a new idea to a happy customer is important. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/