RE: [xml-dev] balance (RE: [xml-dev] Turn Off Automatic Script Ac tivation In Outlook)

On 24 May 2002 at 9:37, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> What you want is technical elitism 
> and in that, you are a lot like the John Galt character of 
> Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, believing that the only choice 
> of the technically advanced and sophisticated is to go to 
> their own enclave until the world failing without their 
> sage advice comes to beg them to rule.

Correction - "Atlas Shrugged".  The leaders left because they refused 
to compromise their beliefs and the adopt the popular socialist 
policies/beliefs of the time (e.g. those who do well are punished the 
most, etc).  

Disturbingly fitting for our times, imho.  

Sorrry to wander off-topic.

Who is John Galt?