The bigger they are, the harder they move

Small companies or individuals can often provide great advances (like Bill Gates, a Harvard dropout), but sustained innovation is tough. It comes from continually looking outside the box and constantly making changes that quite often become epic fails. I'd like to think Google's growth during this economic recession is not solely based on the company's size, but has also gained momentum from employees' pet projects. And yet, what impresses me most is that they don't just leave old ideas for new ones, otherwise the traditional Google search engine would die. Instead, they recognize their weaknesses ("search needs to get better ... faster"), and are improving past projects as well as new ones (like the upcoming Chrome OS). Fortunately--or unfortunately, as the case might be--I can focus the entirety of my research on innovation. Maybe someday I'll be a billionaire and need to fix security threats in previously-developed software.