Another view at the same project, courtesy of Daily WTF:

  By my third interview, I finally got the hang of things:
  I quietly sat while the interviewer read my résumé for
  the first time and then listened to him talk about his 
  exciting computing project. While I can’t remember what
  his project was, I do remember what his response was to 
  my question about its application in science or business:
  "errr, I’m not sure; I guess I don’t really understand 
  why you’d ask that."

As you can guess this person wasn't hired.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Thinking-Machines.aspx