“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.”

—  Paul Graham

"Great Hackers" http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html, July 2004

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