Comment by FrustratedMonky

It's like the old saying "only 10% of my marketing budget is making a difference, I just don't know which 10%"

You don't know ahead of time, where the breakthrough will come from.

There is ton of research that sits on the shelf, and then years later, it gets re-combined with some other useless research, and boom, some big breakthrough.

This current attitude of all research is worthless, so it should be cancelled, is shooting our future selves in the face.