> Somebody was telling me how Hal Varian was "evil" the other night and I added that Vint Cerf was one of the people Upton Sinclair meant when he said “It is di

> Somebody was telling me how Hal Varian was "evil" the other night and I added that Vint Cerf was one of the people Upton Sinclair meant when he said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” [1] This was probably metaphor, but, if meant literally, it seems unlikely: the "difficult" quote is from a 1935 publication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair#Political_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair#Political_caree...), and Vint Cerf was born in 1943 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf).