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@@ -53,9 +53,3 @@ to do only incremental work, follow what the cool people are doing, and focus on
 to get you jobs and funding. There are good reasons to do
 some of this, but if this is all that you do,
 then why are you in research?
-
-  An alternate way to interpret this comic is based on a
-comment I heard in a talk from Daniel Marcu.
-Even in academia, you always have customers for your research,
-just as businesses have customers and artists have
-an audience.