Book ReviewIn Search of Stupidity
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This book is good.

The author covers such things as IBM & the PC, Netscape vs. Microsoft, WordStart vs itself, and a lot more.

Above all, this book is funny, very funny.
I wasn't very much interested in software during the eighties, mainly due to the fact that I was eagerly unticipating my age moving into the two digit zone, but this book manage to capture the old mistakes and bring them to life.
I read it in three days {work got in the day, then the book got in the way of work :D} and it is awesome read.

The author's use of lanuague is superb, and manage to make me chuckle quite a bit.
The ancedotes include ancient history {a text co-proccessor?} to the dot com bomb. Some of them I can relate to personally.

Two things I didn't like:

  • "brainchild" - The first time ever I encountered this word, and the author uses it constantly, and it sort of jump out of the page at me everytime. Doesn't help the the Hebrew translation, literaly translated back, is: "Fruit of his Mind", which is just as rare.
  • The author include many instances where he made a projection that turned out to be correct - I couldn't find any instance where he admit to be wrong. I don't buy this, and it feel too much like ego-boosting.

Nevertheless, it's a facinating book. You can read it as a history book, a marketing advice, humor book or as a general information source.

Highly recommended.

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