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Spot On...
On 1/19/16 12:11 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:16:47 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:
Actually, it was a cultural allusion I left for Greg, considering his
career at IBM, in the vein of "IBM bringing out a personal computer
would be like teaching an elephant to tap dance," but, of course,
"getting it" would require some amount of cultural literacy, which is
pretty much lacking among you and yours.
AKA another off topic brain fart.
The quote itself wasn't even from IBM, it was a 3d party consultant.
The other "Elephant" reference was Gerstner, the asshole who laid off
100,000 people in his effort to "make the elephant dance".
It was "dance" in the sense of those old cowboy movies where you dance
to the beat of gunfire at your feet.
I didn't say the quote was *from* IBM, but it was *about* IBM. Glad you
were able to google it up.
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