The Graphisoft story [antikvár]

Preface u i.- i ^^ ¦ Ti -, - í / li ! ' ; ^ W I ¦ ' . ; ¦. This book, The Graphisoft Story, grew from a throw-away comment at a company party Our guests were being regaled with one of the many anecdotes from Graphisoft's colorful past, when the wife of a co-worker; who had obviously heard many other such stones, suggested that these anecdotes really ought to be published. That made me think. We were growing bigger by the day Our new employees didn't really know where we had come from. They had missed out on so many of our "growing pains." Their experience of us only started when they first walked through the door I initially wrote the Hungarian-language version of the Graphisoft story so that they, too, would fully understand our history and appreciate our culture and spirit When I look at the business market in Hungary today, it saddens me. The entrepreneurial spirit that was so present in the early 1980s has been all but swallowed by complacency Our "big uncle" the EU, has robbed us of our motivation to succeed. The ready availability of EU funding has created in us a certain laziness - an expectation that the world owes us a living. Hungarian writer; György Konrád once asked - What is left when there is no devil?' And I wonder It wasn't unlike the 1950s when the one area open to competition was sport. We produced excellent chess players, swimmers, and gymnasts because sport 1. Konrád. György. Quoted by Michael Heim in "Central European Writers in America." Partisan Review Vol. LIX No. 4. 1992. i , I r. i ¦ '••It I I