韦斯特（West）看着瓦克斯（Vax），想象他看到了DEC公司组织的图表。他觉得Vax太复杂了。例如，他不喜欢机器各个部分相互通信的系统。为了他的口味，涉及太多的协议。他决定在DEC的公司组织中体现了VAX的缺陷。这台机器表达了这项惊人的成功公司谨慎的官僚风格。这是真的吗？韦斯特说这没关系，这是一个有用的理论。
(Looking into the VAX, West had imagined he saw a diagram of DEC's corporate organization. He felt that VAX was too complicated. He did not like, for instance, the system by which various parts of the machine communicated with each other; for his taste, there was too much protocol involved. He decided that VAX embodied flaws in DEC's corporate organization. The machine expressed that phenomenally successful company's cautious, bureaucratic style. Was this true? West said it didn't matter, it was a useful theory.)