Jon Salsberg

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since February 6, 1999

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February 6, 1999, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:
"Bill Gates, CEO of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation." You really don't have to dig too deep to see the parallels, do you? Go through Douglas Adams' works and find everything he ever says about the SCC, and substitute the name Microsoft. Works every time! But here's my favourite: "...of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products: 'it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.' In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."