I have travelled the length and breadth of this country, and have talked with
the best people in business administration. I can assure you on the highest
authority that data processing is a fad and won't last out the year.
-- Editor in charge of business books at Prentice-Hall
publishers, responding to Karl V. Karlstrom (a junior
editor who had recommended a manuscript on the new
science of data processing), c. 1957
I had no desire to be involved in the music busine but I saw that Jerry
Brandt, who was the head of the music department at William Morris, had a
limousine, and he was hanging out with Mick Jagger....