The huge market success of Windows comes as a complete surprise to everyone, while the effort to destroy Netscape originated with developers who were provoked by the bumptious claims of that Internet browser company's boy-founder, Marc Andreessen.

ECONOMIST: Microsoft

Accusing Mr Balls of "bumptious self-confidence", he said the shadow chancellor's starting point "seemed to be that the past was another country, that 2010 was year zero".

BBC: UK economy 're-entering danger zone' - Balls

Mr Klaus is a bumptious free-market populist with nationalist inclinations who scoffed openly at Mr Havel's sermons on civic responsibility and once called him the most elitist person he had ever met.

ECONOMIST: Vaclav Havel