Quotes from Gerald M. Weinberg

lack drama. Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don't have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing

I'm reminded of the story of the village idiot whose antique watch stopped running. He pried it open and found a dead cockroach inside. "No wonder it doesn't work," he said, "the manager is dead.

If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One

Your most powerful method of helping other people is to help yourself.

Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over