From Office Systems 98....

Back in March, Bill Gates of Microsoft, testified before a congressional
committee that if automobiles had enjoyed the same gains in productivity
that computers have achieved in he last 10 years, then we'd all be
driving $25 cars that get 1,000 miles to the gallon.  True, perhaps,
but as our resident fax guru Pete Davidson in his FaxWire newsletter
noted, Gates left out a few crucial points in the analogy.  If, in fact,
cars were PCs:

- Your car would crash two or three times a day, sometimes just
  sitting in park

- Apple would make a solar-powered, highly reliable car that would be
  twice as easy to drive, but it would only run on 10% of the roads.

- Every time the transportation department built a new road, we'd have
  to buy a new car to travel on it.

- Then, if we bought a new car, the brake, accelerator, and steering
  wheel would all be in different places.

- Every time you put your foot on the brake, a message window would
  pop up on the dashboard and say:  Are your sure?  Yes/No.

- Once or twice a week your car would stall in the middle of the
  freeway.   Then you would have to call a mechanic in another city who
  would tell you over the phone how to remove and reinstall the engine.