Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

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.

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

The effectiveness of your life is determined by your ability to convert your time into values

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.

The day had begun like any other ordinary day for Barnabas Crackle. That is to say, as extra-ordinarily as his days typically began, which were the usual for our faithful protagonist.

I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...

The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.