"Duane Maxwell" <dmaxwell at san.rr.com> is widely believed to have written:


> We got a prototype of their system that they'd been slaving over for months.
> On a lark, I reimplemented the whole thing in Squeak with their artwork and
> snippets of code from exobox's base.  It took 8 hours, and was substantially
> more functional.
> 
> That pissed the engineers off tremendously.  Then I started rotating things
> and they still worked.  I think that was the beginning of the end of our
> relationship.
>
Just serves as a reminder that nobody likes a smart-alek, especially
when they thought they were the smart ones...
and I suppose, as a reminder that most of the world is a long way behind
the people in front.


-- 
Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
Strange OpCodes: GME: Generate Meaningless Error