Comment by gavinray

  > Fun fact, my boss also loved to tell me about how dumb academia is because they never do anything useful and how industry makes all the real advancements.

It has always seemed clear to me that the world requires two types of people.

1. "Thinkers", those extraordinarily brilliant people who spend lots of time on a single problem, discovering the optimal and most performance theoretical solution

2. "Hackers", who assemble tools by implementing designs from "Thinkers"

Without Thinkers the Hacker could not possibly solve all required problems well a single tool/product requires

Without Hackers the Thinkers work would languish in the ivory tower it was conceived in