The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

Lets be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.