---
title: "The OLE syndrom"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/8/the-ole-syndrom.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/8/the-ole-syndrom.html"
published: "2003-09-08T05:40:00"
updated: "2003-09-08T05:40:00"
tags: ["Free book chapters", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "So wrote the Inside OLE guru: “.. I considered all of this utter nonsense. [†] I had no use for adoration, admiration, and obeisance. Flattery was useless, and I certainly didn’t want to shoulder the responsibility of…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The OLE syndrom

By Roy Osherove September 8, 2003 In [Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 8, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

**So wrote the _Inside OLE_ guru:**

_“.. I considered all of this utter nonsense._[_\[†\]_](http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapter11.htm#_ftn2)  _I had no use for adoration, admiration, and obeisance.  Flattery was useless, and I certainly didn’t want to shoulder the responsibility of people’s projects and careers!  And I knew full well that my “expertise” in OLE was nothing short of a gift of grace—Inside OLE 2 had been given to me.  It wasn’t something I created by my own power...”_

\[[Mystic Microsoft - chapter 11](http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapter11.htm)\] - via [Robert Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/)

Sounds like the perfect [_Imposter Syndrom_](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/posts/10573.aspx) to me.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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