Microserfs

by Douglas Coupland

If putting a computer on every desktop and in every home didn’t make money, we wouldn’t do it.”

it’s almost impossible to fire someone at Microsoft. It must drive the administration nuts. They hired 3,100 people in 1992 alone, and you know not all of them were gems.

The three things you’re not allowed to discuss at work: death, salaries, and your stock options.

I’m looking at my sympathy-o-meter, and the needle isn’t moving.”

these buildings where they make the machines that make the machines that make the machines.

Here, it’s so much more complicated—you’re supposed to have an exciting, value-adding job that utilizes your creativity,

Thought: one day the word “gigabits” is going to seem as small as the word “dozen.”

So maybe that’s why people are so interested in computer “hackers” —because they invented a new sin.