Richard III
Duke of Gloucester
From Wired, an amusing confession from one of my favorite modern economists, the liberal (but free market defending) J. Bradford DeLong. He starts off an article on why computers impede productivity this way...
(strictly speaking, this should be in Civ2 general, but no one will read it there because Civ2 is inferior...)
In the spring of 1994, I wiped the game Civilization off my office computer. I wiped it off my home PC. I wiped it off my laptop. I threw away the original disks on which it had come. It was clear to me that I had a choice: I could either have Civilization on my computers, or I could be a deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury. I could not do both. It wasn't that my boss ordered me to - she herself played a mean game of computer solitaire. In this, I was the boss, and I had decided that with Civilization on DeLong's hard disk, DeLong's productivity would be unacceptably low.
(strictly speaking, this should be in Civ2 general, but no one will read it there because Civ2 is inferior...)