During World War II, a man named Frederick Terman ran the Harvard Radio Research Lab. There, he and 800 other engineers developed systems that allowed Allied forces to get past German radar installations and more successfully bomb German cities. After the war, Terman came back to Stanford and brought the government's money with him. Then, as illustrated in this video clip from Steve Blank's recent talk at Google, Terman changed the rules at Stanford to encourage Stanford engineers and professors to work with private industry. And that's why we are the spawn of the military-industrial complex. I know, I know. You're still going to vote for Ron Paul anyway.