You can hire the people who think in this way though - they tend to populate graduate school (math, physics, etc.). That is one of the places Google hit hard w

You can hire the people who think in this way though - they tend to populate graduate school (math, physics, etc.). That is one of the places Google hit hard when it came to hiring, which is partly what generated blockbuster success after cementing search - Google got to cherry pick some of the best of the best from graduate programs, and Google benefitted immensely from their minds.