I don't think Stewart can always override corporate diktats about whom to invite. But he got back big time at the M$FT capo de tutti capi the next night. Taking off from Gates's hurried exit, he showed a sequence (photographed from behind) of a staffer impersonating Gates hurrying through the hall knocking everyone out of his way, even going out of his own way to hit them. All silent--and brilliant.
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)