Jason Fried

“Nearly every boss has said it. And just about every employee has heard it. Yet it's one of the most meaningless lines ever spoken in the office: 'My door is always open.'”

“As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.”

“Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.”

“To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.”

“Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.”

“When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'”