Working on the final formulation of technological patents was a veritable blessing for me. It enforced many-sided thinking and also provided important stimuli to physical thought. [Academia] places a young person under a kind of compulsion to produce impressive quantities of scientific publications; a temptation to superficiality.
We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.