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I think you missed the point Malcolm's getting at. His point isn't that they weren't incredibly smart people working for Hammond, it's that Hammond financed a breakthrough with no knowledge of his own and he just says ooooh let's use it to bring dinosaurs back I'm the boss.
>like a kid who found his dad's gun
Is the line you should have payed more attention to. He's not saying you can't build a car without inventing the wheel. He's saying you shouldn't mass produce gasoline engines based on model number 1 on a massive scale the size of buildings that can potentially explode the entire island because you (Hammond personally) doesn't understand what they've accomplished. Like when Wonka builds the teleporter, he's a child and has no idea what he's done and just uses it for candy.
Ellies line makes perfect sense in this context as well.