…or:
That’s some nice quotewhorin’, Lou.
Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.
“It’s ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!” they say, and then fall off the board, again and again.
Joel on Software, My First BillG Review
MBAs tend to be admission tickets to a social welfare system for people whose parents can help them get through grad school. The great MBA fallacy, that one can acquire adequate skills that will apply anywhere, tends to mirror the pseudo-egalitarian “one size fits no one” ethic of Soviet managerialism. That said, I can think of a couple who managed to keep their souls intact. They’ll be fired eventually.