Jon Evans Great Quotations

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.