Proverbs
If your sole value-add to your organization is your ability to click Next, Next, Finish in a GUI wizard, then you might ask yourself why your company is employing a Button Monkey.
This emerged during a rant on the PowerScripting Podcast, during which Don expressed his feelings on people who are over-reliant on the GUI. After all, if you're being paid the big bucks, should you really need a wizard holding your hand?
Every time someone writes a PowerShell script that outputs text, rather than objects, God kills a puppy.
This came out in one of Don's PowerShell classes at a conference, as a way of driving home the fact that PowerShell is an object-based shell, not a text-parsing system. Working with the shell, rather than against it, makes for a more efficient administrator and a better experience for all.
You have a choice: You can either learn PowerShell, or learn to ask, "would you like fries with that?"
One of Don's first proverbs, first voiced during a video interview with MVP Sean Kerney and PowerShell inventory Jeffrey Snover, at TechEd 2010. The idea is simple: PowerShell is Microsoft's way forward. Fail to master it at your own risk.
People who use Write-Host are going to hell.
Another emphasis on the importance of using objects, rather than text. This is true even when creating reports.