I've been around for quite a bit, as you well know, and I've seen a lot of projects that started out well, but turned out to be horrendous mistakes. He had two prototypes up and running before we could stop him. That doesn't 'appen all the time.
E wuz a real straight arrow.
You won't see ME eating anything from there. Well, I take me bread liquid. They were awfully smooth running things, though. A shame they didn't prove out, like that codpiece project I was on. You've a distinct reputation for that, Whitey.