I loved this book as a kid, although once I got into the work force and began to appreciate the value of a work-life balance and the basically unbrigdeable gap in incentives between management and labor, I started to look at the ludicrous demands the company placed on its engineers with a more jaundiced eye.

My perception of the team leader hero, Tom West, was also permanently altered by an essay written by his daughter Jessamyn (a quasi famous technologist in her own right), who described him as basically a depressed alcoholic.