"Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is……" — Joel Spolsky
"Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again."
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