Forty Signs of Rain. Kim Stanley Robinson

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      ‘We’re going to have to tell Derek the bad news.’

      ‘Derek is not going to like it.’

      ‘Not going to like it! Fifty-one million dollars? He’s going to hate it!’

      ‘Think about blowing that much money. What an idiot he is.’

      ‘Is it worse to have a scientist who is a bad businessman as your CEO, or a businessman who is a bad scientist?’

      ‘What about when they’re both?’

      They sat around the bench looking at the mice cages and the rolls of data sheets. A Dilbert cartoon mocked them as it peeled away from the end of the counter. It was a sign of something deep that this lab had Dilberts taped to the walls rather than Far Sides.

      ‘An in-person meeting for this particular communication is contra-indicated,’ said Brian.

      ‘No shit,’ Leo said.

      Marta snorted. ‘You can’t get a meeting with him anyway.’

      ‘Ha ha.’ But Leo was far enough out on the periphery of Torrey Pine Generique’s power structure that getting a meeting with Derek was indeed difficult.

      ‘It’s true,’ Marta insisted. ‘You might as well be trying to schedule a doctor’s appointment.’

      ‘Which is stupid,’ Brian pointed out. ‘The company is totally dependent on what happens in this lab.’

      ‘Not totally,’ Leo said.

      ‘Yes it is! But that’s not what the business schools teach these guys. The lab is just another place of production. Management tells production what to produce, and the place of production produces it. Input from the agency of production would be wrong.’

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