At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.

The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?