'...I always told myself I would never work for a company that made war machines, but my four-by-four table on the hexidemical settings for DIP switches is not going to drop the next atom bomb...techincally.
...I always told myself that this is the country I would have chosen to be born in, if only because it is so easy to leave.  But I am coming to realize that this country is the greatest corporation in the world because we keep our employees forever, because we work hard and we don't know exactly what for, and we don't have any quality control.
...Today I worked on the Software Reference Guide, and today I wrote a poem, an today I let them both loose in the world, and then I just crossed my fingers - hoping the right one would get to the right place first.'
--Simone Beaubien 'Technicalities'