"Booch and his wife have just built a home in Colorado with five miles of high-speed fibre optic cable, a web server, 19 network nodes and a terabyte server. He recently discovered a problem when guests had to phone to get him to open the front door.

'My doorbell had crashed,' he says, with the kind of pleasure only select alpha geeks would get from such an unlikely scenario (...) The guests rang and rang, and nothing happened. 'I had to boot the doorbell,' he sighs."
Guardian: Simply human (8 juli 2004)