# Jews and high-tech business success **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 2, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-and-high-tech-business-success/548876 "2010-08-02T12:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-and-high-tech-business-success/548876/27 "2010-08-02T21:58:17Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > I am not, we are not, pessimistic. We are realistic. The glass half empty is just a glass with some water in it, of course. For my part, I’ve always been sensitive to a certain deadpan grimness that culturally Jewish people can draw upon, briefly and subtly, even in the most lighthearted moments. It could be a look in the eye or the mouth, a careful inflection or a choice of words, so considered and practiced it becomes a reflex. I see it as a psychic spit on the ground, a warding off of the evil eye, a reminder that being carefree and at ease is not their privilege to have - indeed, not even _worth_ having, really. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-and-high-tech-business-success/548876)._