jerry [elkind], when that's all you do it's a kind of downer. You need to be going 'rah,rah' sometimes, too, not just being a devils' advocate.(280, dealers of lightning)

taylor versus elkind, as latter tries to take back his old job at parc. well, something never really easy going, i guess. at the end of the book hiltzik writes more about the other face of parc, about the ego wars and other gibber jabber not as known to me:

the story of richard shoup and his superpaint, who fell out of favor with bob taylor, because of different future/computing/worldviews.

taylor's shit list was a cold, forbidden place (239)

uff, it takes me longer to read this book then i thought ...