> Just another bunch of upper-middle-class white boys who could get into all the right clubs is another part of it. It's too facile (and clearly somewhat tempt

> Just another bunch of upper-middle-class white boys who could get into all the right clubs is another part of it. It's too facile (and clearly somewhat tempting) to argue that race, or old-boy networking, played a part. Most of these people (some of whom I have met) are so driven that the idea of joining a club of rich white guys would seem like torture. Some will argue that they're all Aspies anyway, thus very unlikely to be joiners of anything. > They won the exploding-market lottery by being in the right place and executing well? That makes more sense -- the role of blind chance. When I wrote Apple Writer for the Apple II in 1979, at the time I didn't fully appreciate the vacuum in which I was working, and how my program would seem more remarkable than it was, simply by being the only one.