Teflon and Velcro

To get ahead
in this world of ours
you’ve got to have
a hide as tough
and a head as hard
as Teflon
and in addition
you’ve got to know
how to hook into
the powers that be
as perfectly
as though they and you
were matching slabs
of Velcro





A 3U CompactPCI backplane: photo by Mulad, 2008