Bell Labs is pulling out of basic physics research. They will focus instead on “networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software”.

It’s like peeing your pants to get warm in the winter. It helps for a short time, but then you’re much colder than before.

And what have the people of Bell Labs invented, then? Well, nothing much, just some obscure and unused things like information theory, the laser, UNIX, C programming language, silicon-based transistors, and so on. And they got only 6 Nobel prizes for research done at Bell Labs too.

Maybe they could continue if they had invented perpetual motion and had managed to get 5000 Nobel prizes. Yeah.