> Simons shunned the limelight and rarely gave interviews, citing Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm for explanation: "'God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies.' That's kind of the way I feel about publicity."

I'm glad to read about billionaires with non-poisonous personalities. I'd prefer a world where no individual held such relative power, but next best is a world in which the dreadful oligarchs have foils to balance them out slightly.