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Real Programmers Have No Use For Managers. Managers Are A Necessary Evil.
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Real programmers have no use for managers. Managers are a necessary evil.
They exist only to deal with personnel bozos, bean counters, senior
planners, and other mental defectives.
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Real programmers don't believe in schedules. Planners make up schedules.
Managers firm up schedules. Frightened coders strive to meet schedules....
Old programmers never die, they just become managers.
Managers have someone do it for them.
When managers hold endless meetings, the programmers write games.
When accountants talk of quarterly profits, the development budget is about to be cut....
When managers hold endless meetings, the programmers write games.
When accountants talk of quarterly profits, the development budget is about to be cut....
Let the programmers be many and the managers be few then all will be productive.
-- Tao of Programming...
YAFIYGI /yaf'ee-y*-gee/ adj. [coined in response to WYSIWYG] Describes the command-oriented ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of word processing or other user interface, the opposite of WYSIWYG.
Stands for "You asked for it, you got it", because what you actually asked for is often not apparent until long after it is too late to do anything about it....