“I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven”

“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.
 
   
Pithypedia
I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
—Anonymous
 
Motd—Message of the Day
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  806 of 2327
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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Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
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I’d rather be led to hell than managed to heaven.
 
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Initech
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I’d rather be led to hell than #managed to heaven.
3:23 AM - 8 Nov 12 ·