“I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven” is a quotation of unknown authorship about the perils of over-managing employees. The quotation first appeared in Linux chat groups in 2001.
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I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
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I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
Google Groups: mailing.unix.snort
Robert van der Meulen
3/23/01
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Linux Generation
I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
Google Groups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
Bret ²°¹°
7/24/01
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I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
Google Groups: comp.us.linux.embedded
Wolfgang Denk
12/6/01
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I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
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I’d rather be led to hell than #managed to heaven.
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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