Readers of Packard's 1995 autobiography, The HP Way, or Michael Malone's 2007 book Bill and Dave will find familiar vignettes.

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" Forget Moore's Law", by Michael Malone.

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Michael S. Malone is a veteran Silicon Valley journalist.

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Michael Armstrong needed Malone.

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Kobe Bryant became the youngest player to reach 30, 000 points in an NBA career on Wednesday night, though it took him more games played to reach this feat compared to the other 4 men over the 30, 000 benchmark (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain).

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The only three ahead of him now is Michael Jordan (32, 292), Karl Malone (36, 928) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38, 387).

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