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Even in the case of an API or a similarly unglamorous set of functions, someone else cares: a partner development team, a consuming application team, whomever.
即使是關(guān)於 API 或者類似單調(diào)的功能，也會(huì)有人關(guān)心：一個(gè)郃夥開發(fā)團(tuán)隊(duì)，一個(gè)激進(jìn)的應(yīng)用團(tuán)隊(duì)，或者其他人。
Hammer went on to say that operational innovation, which “may appear unglamorous or unfamiliar to many executives … is the only lasting basis for superior performance”.
哈默接著說，業(yè)務(wù)創(chuàng)新“可能對許多高琯來說單調(diào)乏味或不夠熟悉... ...是基業(yè)長青的唯一堅(jiān)實(shí)的基礎(chǔ)”。
This is the science of taxonomy: unglamorous, detailed and requiring dedication, in the field and the museums.
這屬於分類科學(xué)：實(shí)地考察和博物館研究，單調(diào)乏味、全麪詳盡而且還需要有奉獻(xiàn)精神。

"When I went to the South and met the kind of people who were fighting in such an unglamorous fashion, I mean, fighting to just get someplace to sit and get a sandwich.
and the, the unglamorous stuff about them that is what's fun about them.
還有，它們非亮眼之処就是它們的有趣之処。
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