Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

Art is whatever you can get away with.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.