On a more serious note, Ajit Manocha & Geoff Taylor worked for Bell Labs. My father-in-law worked for Bell Labs; a young lady I once had the pleasure of knowing interned at Bell Labs.
Now, I'm just a lackluster, dumb-as-rocks Midwesterner living in fly-over country who thinks a Sushi restaurant is a bait-shop. Do I understand the tech? Of course not. But I'm old enough to remember Bell Labs. And that is what sold me.