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I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience. ”
You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness. ”
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. ”
In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control. ”
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. ”
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television. ”
Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things. ”
I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it. ”
There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity. ”
He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management. ”