It's a good sign when you cautiously suggest some ridiculously ambitious future plan to a startup, and discover they've already thought a lot about i… - Paul Graham

I've seen occasional articles about how to manage programmers. Really there should be two articles: one about what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one about what to do if you're not. And the second could probably be condensed into two words: give up.

The more arbitrary the rules imposed by an authority — the more at odds they are with reality — the more opportunities they create for hacking them.

Once you’re allowed to do that, people who want to get rich can do it by generating wealth instead of stealing it.