“He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.”

“Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.”

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ”

“Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations…Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'…Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.”

“In a world of bosses, you are your own master”

“Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.”

“If we’re honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband … you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he’s employing someone while he is in fact a boss.”

“He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.”

“Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss.”

“The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.”