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To: QwikSand who wrote (11695)	11/17/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

But QuikSand, forget about People Magazine's 50 Most Beautfiul People, Scott is a VIP. Beauty is unnecessary. A computer and a brain are a prerequisite. Status? Who has it? What We Look Up to Now! Actually, Scott has arrived! See The New York Times, Sunday Magazine, p. 69 in the November 15, 1998 issue. Joseph Nocera believes Scott is the kind of person that our society admires because "the arriviste" can imagine technology's importance in our future. Why were the imaginative tech folks successful in the 80s? Nocera claims that "this had nothing whatsoever to do with Reagan or with the government's promoting the values of the self-made man. It was because out in Silicon Valley, a new kind of industry was being born. It wasn't dirty or slick. It didn't require digging holes in the ground. Instead, it was a futuristic industry that was clean and fun. It took place in an office----or more famously in a garage. The only equipment required was a computer and a brain. It was run by a bunch of wide-eyed kids who captured the public's imagination. They weren't just out to make money: they were idealistic and were going to change the world---or so they said. And, oh yes, it turned out to be the greatest creator of instant wealth this nation has ever seen. In a sense, New Money became respectable the moment it was connected to a California computer start-up instead of to a Texas oil well." Best Wishes :D Mephisto