If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

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

This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that.

Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man.

Love is one of the strongest feelings one can ever have.

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

What is important is that we have the ability to create.