The Sanctity of Work - by Victor Rozek, The Unix Guardian, IT Jungle, NY
Work without joy is death by a thousand commutes. One hundred and fifty years ago, Dostoevsky described the effects of dispiriting labor: 'To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.'