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Some people are very emotional about it. Some people very, very cut-and-dry. Some people think
like an engineer, that is, how do I solve this problem? Others approach things like a scientist:
what’s going on here, as opposed to how do I make use of it? That’s diversity. And if you put together
groups of people that are appropriate to the area you’re working, that pick up those different
mindsets with it – good things happen. And if you’d like, that – assuming they have the background to go
seems tothere are a fair number of people fit in with this concept of ... the people – this is a scientific –
organization it. They don’t understand that things don’t happen – fair number of people who don’t get
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