In Search of Stupidity is a book written by Merrill Rick Chapman, first published in 2003.

(Thanks to Rick Chapman for reminding me of history repeating itself.)

A bunch of people asked me what I meant when I referred to Rick Chapman's upcoming book on stupidity in the software industry.

For your weekend reading pleasure, Rick Chapman interviewed me.

According to Rick Chapman, the answer is simpler: Microsoft was the only company on the list that never made a fatal, stupid mistake.

Read all about it in my foreword to Rick Chapman's excellent new book, In Search of Stupidity.

"He's trying to bypass the leadership and go straight to the membership," Rick Chapman, a leader of the pilots' union, said today.

Luckily I found Rick Chapman.

I just had the good fortune to read an advance copy of Rick Chapman's excellent new book on stupidity in the software industry.

"At a certain point it became a fight for dignity," said Rick Chapman, one of the leaders of the pilots' union at Eastern Airlines.