If you have a mocking personality, people won't bring you new ideas. - Paul Graham

Instead of "I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that," we're going to get a long, vague, and conspicuously even-handed discourse about the factors involved in the design and use of pod bay doors.

If you're running a process that people want to hack, and you're not actively measuring attempts to hack it, it's being hacked.

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.