Death by sarcasm

We’d even invent geek conspiracy theories to explain the evil decisions, which we thought were made against engineering purity and thus made little or no sense to us. Often, we’d focus blame on the marketing departments of these companies [Faisal Jawdat, a tech reviewer on this book, threatened me with death by sarcasm if I didn’t point out how ironic it is that I then went on to work for Microsoft.] — Making Things Happen, Scott Berkun