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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

— James D. Watson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

— Eric Ries

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

— Michael Gove

Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.

— Simon Mainwaring

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

— Tan Le

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

— Jack Welch

It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.

— Shuji Nakamura

✗Opposing Perspectives

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

— John Desmond Bernal

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

— Simon Mainwaring

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

— Seth Godin