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.

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

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.

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

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

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Our generation thinks only about where they are going not how they are driving

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.