"Blame it on the technology!"

Even at technology companies with a lot of IT talent, you can hear things like this excerpt from Tom Evslin's bloook "Hackoff!": hackoff.com: Chapter 11 - Bear Hug, February 19: 25, 2002 - episode 3: '"Blame it on the technology", says Aaron.' when their conference phone is accidentally disconnected by their CEO.

Its so common to "blame it on technology", because I suspect that people are condition to expect little from computers in terms of stability.