Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

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.

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...

Decorate yourself with the beauty of love.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.