This poses an interesting challenge to any research organization: be even more nimble and supportive of the unconventional, tolerate more way-out and expensive ideas, and encourage the seemingly disheveled behavior of hacker life. In the pool of knowledge at a university, professors are not the fish, but the pond. The water is not chlorinated, clear, precisely circumscribed, and inhabited by one kind of perfect goldfish.It is a muddied habitat with fuzzy edges and home to all sorts of people, including those who do not fit traditional scholarship. That is where new ideas come from.
