For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -Richard Feynman
The opulence of the front office decor is inversely proportional with the solvency of the firm.
On Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. -HHGTTG