> And you believe him ...
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>Is there a specific reason why he should not?

It's cool. Sergey was either expressing understandable skepticism or showing his sly humor. IAC, my buddy did have that job. Then a similar job at TRW (after memorably calling his boss at Hughes a pencil pushing jagov, end quote) and Northrup after that. It was the golden age of military spending, before computer companies started snapping up all the engineers. And he went to a good school. Moms and dads with kids of a scientific bent, send 'em to Northwestern. This guy's GPA was nothing to write home about.

I got a post card from him last summer, from Dubai.