I went on a biz trip to Atlanta in August 1987. I was there to straighten out a customer, Marconi, because they had unreplicatable acceptance tests on military electronics. I was wearing a necktie.

It was 90 degrees and raining.

Like being in a shower.

I was sweating like a pig.


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps