Technological breakthroughs require long-term investment and patience; short-term gains should not be the focus.
Paths are made by walking.
切勿觉得一定会成功而放弃思考。
And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading. And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one on one either on the telephone or personally with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. In other words, it looks quite academic, all this worldly success.
There is no sin except stupidity.
To truly grasp the essence of quantum mechanics, one must embrace the paradoxes that challenge our classical intuitions.