PAST TENSE, FUTURE TENSER

“Most of the media … is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.”

H-P CEO Carly Fiorina, on how surprised she is to find that pissing off the founders’ heirs might seem like a story to some reporters, News.com, 15 November 2001