Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.