“To understand the dynamics of technology. . .”

“To understand the dynamics of technology, therefore, one always starts out with areas of knowledge other than one’s own.

Not only is one likely to be blinded in one’s own field, where one knows, as a rule, far too much, and especially all the things that cannot be done—most of them untested, of course.

It is also more probable that a truly major advance is more likely to result from a development in another field than from within one’s own field.”