The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.