Although his facts were off by a measure, the Americans' two-man Gemini program was, as of late, noticeably and distressingly upstaging whatever grand spectacles [Sergei] Korolev had managed to bring about. He was getting trounced. Blottoed. Pummeled like the chump in a rigged boxing match.

He liked the new archivists, docketers, typists, printers, stenographers, binders, and second division clerks. He accepted the system as he found it.

You also need to remember that it's rare to find someone in a C-suite or on a board who knows how to get down and dirty with IT, who knows the difference between a firewall and a fire exit.

Yes, Billy was a foundling, a presumable bye-blow, and, evidently, no ignoble one.