Mat Honan:

The problem with building your organization around a person is that people can leave -- and then you're screwed.

Marco Arment:

It should be troubling if a lot of people are staying ... because everything else is worse, not necessarily because they love it.

The Economist:

For the past 20 years, and bucking previous trends, the workers who are now working the longest hours and juggling the most responsibilities at home also happen to be among the best educated and best paid. The so-called leisure class has never been more harried.

Horace Dediu:

I've often said that corporate governance is medieval, or pre-scientific in its approach to understanding causality. That may be too generous.

Paul Graham:

What should you do if your true calling is gaming the system? Management consulting.

Homa Mojtabai:

We'd really like to see you take on more of a leadership role before we pay you for being a leader.

James Tour:

My job is to inspire them and provide a credit card, and direct them away from rabbit holes.

One exasperated AVP:

UNIX was never a deliverable!

Daniel Engber:

Support the slacker --- or better yet, be a slacker. Take some extra time. Stay home. That's how we can show that it's O.K. to take it easy, and that a happy, healthy life needn't be a source of shame.