got this off an email...
quite interesting...

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity. (Ink won't flow down to the writing surface). In order to solve this problem, they hired Andersen Consulting (Accenture today). It took them one decade and 12 million dollars.They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, under water, on practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

To tackle the same problem, the Russians used a pencil...

Moral of the story: God's way is always the most straight-forward, the most effective, and most direct. Never think otherwise, no matter how humble the it is.