Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.

The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.