Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.