Marine Corps Management Techniques for Techies

[mrph]

"Your problem, sir, is deciding what you want me to do, and my problem, sir, is doing it. My gung-ho posture says that once you give the order I'm not going to bother you with any of the details - and your half of the bargain is that you had better stay on your side of the line, sir, and not bother me with any of the chickenshit politics that you have to deal with for a living"

-Neal Stephenson, 'Cryptonomicon'

I love that quote, I really do.

Comments

[reverend-g.livejournal.com]

i read probably 1/8th of that book in various trips to barnes and noble, but i never purchased it. i really liked what i read, but is the book in its entirety worthy of purchase?

Probably, yeah.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's his best - the plot and characters are good, but the setting limits his scope for the sort of crazy ideas that made Diamond Age and Snow Crash work.

I enjoyed it an awful lot, though, and it's got lots of twists and turns. There's a prequel of sorts, "Quicksilver", due out in a month or two.

Oh, and hi, btw. :)