SITUATION: Users want phone list application.



The TECHNICAL THUG
Writes RDBMS in perl and Smalltalk. Users give up and go back to post-it notes.

The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST
Oracle. Users give up and go back to post-it notes.

The MANIAC
Tells the users to use flat files and grep, the way God meant man to keep track of phone numbers. Users give up and go back to post-it notes.

The IDIOT
% dd ibs=80 if=/dev/rdisk001s7 | grep "index.html#red">