It is not just for the pleasure of poking fun at the experts I bring this up. There are at least four other reasons for doing so. First, as you go on you will have to deal with experts many times, and you should understand their characteristics. Second, in time many of you will be experts, and I am hoping to at least modify the behavior of some of you so that you will, in your turn, not be such a block on progress as many experts have been in the past. Third, it appears to me that the rate of progress, the rate of innovation and change of the dominant paradigm, is increasing, and hence you
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