Perhaps the ‘paper clips’ Clippy is trying to maximize are the anthropomorphic paper clips embodied in Microsoft Office. This would explain Clippy’s helpful hints: to convince us all of the usefulness of Microsoft Office, thus encouraging us to run that program.
If this is the case, we face a fate worse than paper clip tiling.… Microsoft software tiling.
Perhaps the ‘paper clips’ Clippy is trying to maximize are the anthropomorphic paper clips embodied in Microsoft Office. This would explain Clippy’s helpful hints: to convince us all of the usefulness of Microsoft Office, thus encouraging us to run that program.
If this is the case, we face a fate worse than paper clip tiling.… Microsoft software tiling.