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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.
即使是关于 API 或者类似单调的功能，也会有人关心：一个合伙开发团队，一个激进的应用团队，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”.
哈默接着说，业务创新“可能对许多高管来说单调乏味或不够熟悉... ...是基业长青的唯一坚实的基础”。
This is the science of taxonomy: unglamorous, detailed and requiring dedication, in the field and the museums.
这属于分类科学：实地考察和博物馆研究，单调乏味、全面详尽而且还需要有奉献精神。

"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.
还有，它们非亮眼之处就是它们的有趣之处。
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