First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

You can't control what you can't measure

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

It is never too late or too early

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.