Have you heard of quantum bogodynamics? The theory is that there's an elemental particle, the bogon. When this is absorbed by a piece of equipment, it frequent

Have you heard of quantum bogodynamics? The theory is that there's an elemental particle, the bogon. When this is absorbed by a piece of equipment, it frequently malfunctions. Good engineers, over time, become bogon sinks, so that when there's an engineer around the bogon absorption rate of the equipment they're working on drops. Meanwhile, managers tend to become bogon _emitters_. So, give a device to them and it instantly fails. Pauli, here, sounds like he was a massive bogon source. This handily explains the effect where the device will reliably fail but when an engineer shows up to look at it, it works fine. It also explains why demos are so flaky: all those people watching the demo are emitting a massive bogon flux...