When I point out that California is often maligned by outsiders as
a bastion Of governmental and budgetary dysfunction (not to men -
tion the stomping ground of the loony left), he retorts, "I like to say
to them, 'Where are the great companies that you've produced in the
past 20 years? If you guys are so realistic and mature, name the great
companies you've produced. Because I'll name you 10!'" Achieve-
ment here, he says, "usually involves a small number of people going
off by themselves and creating something new to solve the problem
and change the world. That's how great things are done, not by join-
ing a high-quality professional institution and working your way up."
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