No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

I love the day date. No wine, no shower.