There aren't enough smart engineers and scientists to go around.
Like a lot of really smart engineers, Barton has the air of a man used to figuring things out.
It wasn't that Microsoft didn't have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud.
"A lot of companies started with no merchants, just a lot of really smart engineers or people with M.B.A.'s in marketing".
The pessimists would say that intelligent governments, which do exist, that have smart engineers that work for them can figure out ways of breaking the internet.
It was refreshing to hear the politicians talk about the STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — subjects, but come on, let's get some of the smart engineers into the country by granting them their H-1B visas.
The five-year-old company, founded by three smart engineers and in which Lakshmi Mittal, a steel magnate, was an early investor, floated shares in September at 19 rupees apiece.
"It described Budapest as the Paris of Eastern Europe, and I thought, 'That sounds good.' " In Budapest, Mr. Simon discovered a wealth of smart engineers fresh out of school and hungry for opportunities — for relatively modest wages.
It was assumed that even ordinarily smart engineers with the desire to create something new could do so with impunity, and Barton and Ramsay were more than ordinarily smart.
Also, there are many more smart engineers who don't work for NASA than who do, and the nice thing about competitive enterprise is that the good ideas can come from anyone (or at least, closer to it).
