“How many Microsoft employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?”

— Guy Kawasaki

The answer to that is none because Bill Gates has declared darkness the new standard.
Speech at Stanford University 2 March 2011 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669

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