A short while later, they meet again. The first man in the balloon says to him, "What you told us is both correct and completely useless for us, you must be a mathematician." "That's correct! And you must be in upper management, right?" he replies. "You are right, but how do you know?" - "You got to your position through a big amount of hot air. Now you made bad decisions and don't know a way out. You asked me for an opinion, and I gave an honest answer, which you didn't like. Yet somehow now you're blaming me."In the same "climate": A hot air baloon crew got lost in thick fog for hours. Finally they saw a man on narrow path behind the fog and one shouted "hello, where are we"? The man looked up and hesitated... and hesitated... Finally, jut before losing contact, he shouted back "in a baloon". What a moron, said one of the crew. Another said, no, he must be a mathematician: He thought diligently through, what the right answer would be, and the answer was right, but it yields us all zero.
Actually that's GOSS v. 1.0, which was then quickly superceded by DOS (Duck's Old Stories) and consequently Wi(n)dows v. 2.0 [identifiable by the sash mechanism]. Ah, the good old days...